[NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse

[terry]

George Lass wrote:
> find . -name \*.zip -exec rm -f {} \;
> 
> Enjoy
> G
> 
> 

So, will both these scripts do the same?

for file in `find . -name "*.zip"`; do
rm $file
done

&

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

In other words, it's just 2 different ways of doing the same thing?

I would experiment but can't think of any types of files I want to 
delete right now. I'm thinking these commands would delete all files 
with extension "zip" throughout the whole partition. If so, that's very 
powerful.