Subject: Re: piping to rm?
eclectric@ftml.net
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 08:29:56 AKST
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 06:57:01 -0900, bryan@ak.net said:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:50:05AM -0900, AFABCO <lee@afabco.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wanting to go thru and delete all my mp3's avi's, mpg's, etc...
>
> find . -iname *.mp3 |xargs rm
> should work.
or a better way, since whitespace causes problems on occasion:
find . -iname *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
This pads the filenames (for both programs) with null characters, rather
than spaces, which will catch stuff like "(Wolfe Tones) Black and
Tans.mp3", which would otherwise be seen as 5 non-existant files by
xargs. Or go with the -exec tag for find as has already been suggested.
James
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