Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:14:52 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to Use Find To Remove Files? Message-ID: <000f01c17ea3$7bc9db40$962a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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I'm trying to learn to use the tools as intended. :) I have a
directory tree of squirrelmail that I retrived via CVS. Because I only
need a "snapshot", I want to delete all the CVS directories in the tree.
I've used the command (find . -name "CVS" -print) from the top of the
tree and it appears to find the files I want. Heres a snip:
blacklamb# find . -name "CVS" -print
./CVS
./config/CVS
./data/CVS
./doc/CVS
./functions/CVS
./help/id/CVS
./help/ca/CVS
./help/cs/CVS
./help/th/CVS
./help/en/CVS
[etc.]
Now what I want to do is remove those files so I've tried (find . -name
"CVS" -ok "rm {}";) and various versions of the command but can't get
the syntax right. How should I construct this command?
Thanks,
Drew
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