Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:29:53 -0800 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'rm' Can not delete files Message-ID: <86zkcqr17i.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <4F3541D6.5080505@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:06 %2B0000") References: <1237723287.20120207235924@yandex.ru> <4F31A260.20109@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120207231716.31aa8bc3@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120209032544.GA58560@ozzmosis.com> <CAE7N2kdmbm_5=c8oNknYQE5HOrvVjtfS4XTGYvxTjEQVbGr-7Q@mail.gmail.com> <4F3541D6.5080505@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
Matthew> find . -type f -depth 1 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
Matthew> but let's not leave people in any doubt that this is not the
Matthew> best option.
However...
find . -type f -depth 1 -exec rm -f {} +
Might very well be a great option. Well, not for something that is also
like -delete, but for other things that would have formerly required
"-print0 | xargs -0"... this is apparently a fairly recent (and
welcome!) modification to find.
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