Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:39:52 -0800 From: rick norman <norm.butts@lmco.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Use Find To Remove Files? Message-ID: <3C0FF3B8.116E6FBE@lmco.com> References: <000f01c17ea3$7bc9db40$962a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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I would use something like :
find . -name "*.core" -exec rm {} \;
Rick
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I'm trying to learn to use the tools as intended. :) I have a
> directory tree of squirrelmail that I retrived via CVS. Because I only
> need a "snapshot", I want to delete all the CVS directories in the tree.
> I've used the command (find . -name "CVS" -print) from the top of the
> tree and it appears to find the files I want. Heres a snip:
>
> blacklamb# find . -name "CVS" -print
> ./CVS
> ./config/CVS
> ./data/CVS
> ./doc/CVS
> ./functions/CVS
> ./help/id/CVS
> ./help/ca/CVS
> ./help/cs/CVS
> ./help/th/CVS
> ./help/en/CVS
> [etc.]
>
> Now what I want to do is remove those files so I've tried (find . -name
> "CVS" -ok "rm {}";) and various versions of the command but can't get
> the syntax right. How should I construct this command?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>
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