Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:09:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension Message-ID: <grdr24$lag$2@ger.gmane.org> References: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com>
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:57:39 -0400, John Almberg wrote:
JA> This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
JA>
JA> I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think
JA> something like the following should work, but I must have something
JA> wrong, because it doesn't:
JA>
JA> find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
find . -type f -name '*.tar' -delete
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Anton Yuzhaninov
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