Re: [vox-tech] script to delete files

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Subject: Re: [vox-tech] script to delete files
From: Rod Roark <rod@sunMAPSsetsystems.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 06:42:21 -0700
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On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:29 am, Jay Strauss wrote:
...
> find /home -name Bulk -print | xargs rm

or find can also do this internally:

find /home -name Bulk -exec rm -f {} \;

> Please test this in a tmp directory to make sure
> you understand what will happen and that this is
> the desired effects

What he said.  :-)  For example try it with echo:

find /home -name Bulk -exec echo {} \;

-- Rod
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- [vox-tech] script to delete files
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- Re: [vox-tech] script to delete files
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