cleanup script needed

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <80 at torsqnt.UUCP>, david at torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
> :No, try	"find . -name '*.dvi' -print | xargs rm".
> :
> Why not, 	"find . -type f -name '*.dvi' -exec rm {} \;" 	?

Which is better in some ways, since in the first example (using xargs) if rm
finds a *.dvi file without write permission to you or which it otherwise thinks
is unsuitable to be removed, it will say something like

foo/bar.dvi: 444 mode?

and then read a line from stdin.  This will swallow the next filename from
find, which was intended for xargs.  Of course rm -f will omit the check but
also will omit any warning for files you can't remove or that can be removed
but are not writeable by you.
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