Re: piping to rm?


Subject: Re: piping to rm?
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 07:43:31 AKST


On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 bryan@ak.net wrote:

> find . -iname *.mp3 -exec rm {} \;

It might be good to get into the habit of escaping the {} as well, to avoid
having some shells interpreting them as a directive for them.

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