[NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse

[George Lass]

find . -name \*.zip -exec rm -f {} \;

Enjoy
G



-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org on behalf of Bobby Wrenn
Sent: Thu 5/6/2004 9:08 AM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse
 
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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