[NTLUG:Discuss] Removing lots of Files - help.

[Bobby Sanders]

Thanks David.

I don't to a _lot_ of administration, completely forgot about the exec
switch and was too dumb to think about doing man find. Yuk.

Thanks again.

Bobby

--On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 13:49:33 -0500, David Camm <dcamm at advwebsys.com> said:

  DC> find / -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} \;

Bobby Sanders wrote:
  >> I want to remove all of the files on my system which end in
  >> tilde, ~.  I'm running bash, know this should be easy, have read
  >> lots of Cameron's book, which I love, but can't put my finger on
  >> this.
  >> 
  >> Help please.  Thanks.