Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:05:07 +0530 From: Shantanoo Mahajan <shantanoo@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Graham Bentley <gbentley@uk2.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs Message-ID: <20060127163506.GA1020@ghar.dhoomketu.net.in> In-Reply-To: <43D92DD9.1080304@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20060126081925.5085916A443@hub.freebsd.org> <000901c622b2$03b3dcc0$0807a8c0@admin> <43D92DD9.1080304@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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+++ Matthew Seaman [freebsd] [26-01-06 20:15 +0000]:
| Graham Bentley wrote:
| > Hi All,
| >=20
| > I once found a very elegant method of recursively
| > removing all the word ~tmp files on our Samba
| > server (many hundereds of subs)
| >=20
| > It involved find rm xargs and some {}
| >=20
| > It worked very quickly indeed. I have tried to
| > find this again but cant and have used alternatives
| > that are alot slower.
| >=20
| > Any CLI Gurus point me in the path of enlightenment ?
|=20
| find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
|=20
| or something like that.
You may also try:
find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -delete
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