cleanup script needed

Root Boy Jim rbj at dsys.icst.nbs.gov
Wed Apr 5 00:42:17 AEST 1989


? From: David Haynes <david at torsqnt.uucp>
? Date: 6 Mar 89 00:22:17 GMT

? In article <9793 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
? :In article <15659 at oberon.USC.EDU> rkumar at buddha.usc.edu () writes:
? :>Will rm -r *.dvi do the job?
? :
? :No, try	"find . -name '*.dvi' -print | xargs rm".
? :
? Why not, 	"find . -type f -name '*.dvi' -exec rm {} \;" 	?

? -david-

As has been pointed out, the xargs version is much better. However, in
our never ending search for creeping featurism, perhaps it is time to
add `-rm' to the list of find options. We already have `-ls'.

	Catman Rshd <rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov>
	Author of "The Daemonic Versions"



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