[NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse

Bobby Wrenn bjwrenn at augustmail.com
Thu May 6 09:08:36 CDT 2004


Paul Drew wrote:
> I would try a find and then run an xargs and rm the results.
> 
> find . -name "*.zip" | xargs rm {}
> 
> 
Did the job and then returned:
rm: cannot remove `{}': No such file or directory
But it worked.

Thanks
Bobby




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