From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 6 21:11:11 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 CBF2F106573E for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from lmailproxy03.edpnet.net (lmailproxy03.edpnet.net [212.71.1.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481518FC19 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from [192.168.0.10] ([77.109.107.220]) by lmailproxy03.edpnet.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n36LB5tL013998; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 23:11:10 +0200 From: Julien Cigar To: John Almberg In-Reply-To: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com> References: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:11:04 +0200 Message-Id: <1239052264.1152.0.camel@rivendell.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94, clamav-milter version 0.94 on lmailproxy03.edpnet.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on lmailproxy03.edpnet.net 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 21:11:13 -0000 On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 16:57 -0400, 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 {} \; > find . -type f -name "*.tar" -delete > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks: John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52