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Date:      Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:48:16 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Cc:        mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mass find/replace...
Message-ID:  <4938F8E0.2040908@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4938F4E8.8030304@boosten.org>
References:  <002b01c95609$ed0c7200$c7255600$@wakefield.sch.uk>	<1228395500.2781.41.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>	<200812050551.32850.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>	<004c01c956ba$56497410$02dc5c30$@wakefield.sch.uk> <4938F4E8.8030304@boosten.org>

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Peter Boosten wrote:
| Marc Coyles wrote:
|> I'm presuming it'd be:
|>
|> Find /home/horbury -type f -name "*.bak" -exec \
|> 	Rm *.bak
|>
|
| find /home/horbury -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \;
|

find /home/horbury -type f -name '*.bak' -delete

'delete' is a find primitive -- no need to exec any other processes.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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