[CentOS] Computer 1A question

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Sat Aug 5 00:58:31 UTC 2006


On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 at 5:17pm, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote

> From: Seán O Sullivan Sent: August 4, 2006 17:10
>>
>> Todd Cary wrote:
>>> I want to delete all files that have the pattern of "*.zip" in the
>>> directory /home/mydir and all sub-directories.
>> find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
>>
>
> Or: find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -exec rm {} \;

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.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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