From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 6 21:06:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FF710656E6 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE84C8FC1B for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:06:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 57796 invoked by uid 89); 6 Apr 2009 21:06:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 6 Apr 2009 21:06:42 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com> References: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <0DC256B7-C28C-40C8-837B-A3D18E858C3F@identry.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Almberg Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:06:02 -0400 To: John Almberg X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:06:05 -0000 On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:57 PM, John Almberg wrote: > This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out... > > I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think > something like the following should work, but I must have something > wrong, because it doesn't: > > find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \; > > What am I doing wrong? Oh, duh... that /dev/null shouldn't be there. -- John