[CentOS] Computer 1A question

Sat Aug 5 15:46:53 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 at 8:27am, Todd Cary wrote

> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
> The error is
>
> rm: Too few arguments
>
> find /home/mydir -name "*.zip" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Odd -- that WORKSFORME.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University