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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:18:31 -0800 (PST)
From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
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To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: How to Use Find To Remove Files?
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> 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?

find . -name "CVS" -delete

works on FreeBSD's find.


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