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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:18:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to Use Find To Remove Files?
Message-ID:  <20011206151756.D15780-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <000f01c17ea3$7bc9db40$962a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> 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?

find . -name "CVS" -delete

works on FreeBSD's find.


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