[CentOS] Computer 1A question

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Sat Aug 5 14:59:29 UTC 2006


On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 at 7:48am, Todd Cary wrote

> This one worked like a champ:
>
> find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -exec rm {} \;
>
> Whereas this one produced an error:
>
> find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm

For completeness' sake, what was the error?

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



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