Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:11:04 +0200 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension Message-ID: <1239052264.1152.0.camel@rivendell.lan> In-Reply-To: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com> References: <5BF30BAA-2B35-46C8-8257-56B077D00A8C@identry.com>
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On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 16:57 -0400, 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 {} \;
>
find . -type f -name "*.tar" -delete
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks: John
>
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