Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:01:27 +0100 From: Mathieu CHATEAU <gollum123@free.fr> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: illoai@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs Message-ID: <564274847.20060127160127@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <200601270200.k0R20orV050840@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20060126081925.5085916A443@hub.freebsd.org> <000901c622b2$03b3dcc0$0807a8c0@admin> <43D92DD9.1080304@infracaninophile.co.uk> <d7195cff0601261528i37802910n6cff161198d99c5f@mail.gmail.com> <200601270200.k0R20orV050840@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Hello Olivier,
useless to do -r while you search only files (-type f)
the delete function of find seems more apropriate to me
Mathieu CHATEAU
Friday, January 27, 2006, 3:00:50 AM, you wrote:
>> > > removing all the word ~tmp files on our Samba
>> > > server
>> >
>> > find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
>> >
>> > or something like that.
>> >
>>
>> find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -delete
ON> Or, Graham wanted something with {}
ON> find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -exec /bin/rm -rf {} \;
ON> Olivier
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