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This one worked like a champ:<br>
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find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -exec rm {} \;<br>
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Whereas this one produced an error:<br>
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find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
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Many thanks!<br>
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Todd<br>
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Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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cite="midPine.LNX.4.62.0608042057240.4795@chaos.egr.duke.edu"
type="cite">On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 at 5:17pm, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote
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<blockquote type="cite">From: Seán O Sullivan Sent: August 4, 2006
17:10
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Todd Cary wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I want to delete all files that have the
pattern of "*.zip" in the
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directory /home/mydir and all sub-directories.
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find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
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Or: find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -exec rm {} \;
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To complete the discussion, the first form should be faster, as it will
only spawn 1 rm command rather than one for every result of 'find'.
This can make a big difference if a lot of results are expected.
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