Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:56:38 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: gollum123@free.fr Cc: illoai@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs Message-ID: <200601300556.k0U5ucxa035109@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <564274847.20060127160127@free.fr> (message from Mathieu CHATEAU on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:01:27 %2B0100) References: <20060126081925.5085916A443@hub.freebsd.org> <000901c622b2$03b3dcc0$0807a8c0@admin> <43D92DD9.1080304@infracaninophile.co.uk> <d7195cff0601261528i37802910n6cff161198d99c5f@mail.gmail.com> <200601270200.k0R20orV050840@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <564274847.20060127160127@free.fr>
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Hi Mathieu,
> useless to do -r while you search only files (-type f)
> the delete function of find seems more apropriate to me
But the -exec mode is more general (understand you put whatever
command you want there) and beside, the first question was refeering
to a syntax using {}.
But I guess that Graham has already deleted all his directories anyway :)
Olivier
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