Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:22:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> That won't work if filenames contain blanks, something I fight daily.
For blanks, do something like "find . -name "*log" -exec rm -fr
"{}" \;
I have a tiny program called "zeroify" which reads a line from input up
to a
newline, replaced the newline with a zero byte, and pushes it out stdout. Then I
can use the "-0" option of xargs and not worry about special characters.
I worry that find is likely to discover things I don't want to remove, although
it can be tamed with "-maxdepth" in most cases.
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