From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 11:23:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D538D37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26710; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:23:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:23:42 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: "Kellers, Timothy" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" , "'kellers@njit.edu'" Subject: Re: desktop.eml and sample.eml In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Kellers, Timothy wrote: > Secondly, if I save the output of: > > # locate desktop.eml > > into a file, is there a reasonably non-hazardous way of deleting all the > filenames contained within the file? This would be better: find /path/to/search -iname desktop.eml -delete find /path/to/search -iname sample.eml -delete -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message