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
Many thanks!
Todd
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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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