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.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University