Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:11:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension Message-ID: <20090406211111.GF70541@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com> References: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 06), John Almberg said:
> 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 . -name "*.tar" -delete
Make sure you quote your wildcards so the shell doesn't expand them, and use
the -delete primary to save a fork/exec for each filename.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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