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From: Shantanoo Mahajan <shantanoo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs
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+++ Matthew Seaman [freebsd] [26-01-06 20:15 +0000]:
| Graham Bentley wrote:
| > Hi All,
| >=20
| > I once found a very elegant method of recursively
| > removing all the word ~tmp files on our Samba
| > server (many hundereds of subs)
| >=20
| > It involved find rm xargs and some {}
| >=20
| > It worked very quickly indeed. I have tried to
| > find this again but cant and have used alternatives
| > that are alot slower.
| >=20
| > Any CLI Gurus point me in the path of enlightenment ?
|=20
|    find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
|=20
| or something like that.

You may also try:

find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -delete

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