Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:06:02 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.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: <0DC256B7-C28C-40C8-837B-A3D18E858C3F@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com> References: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com>
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On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:57 PM, John Almberg wrote:
> 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 {} \;
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Oh, duh... that /dev/null shouldn't be there.
-- John
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