how do you use rm to del found files

dattaway at attaway.net dattaway at attaway.net
Thu Jun 27 15:00:58 CDT 2002


On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Gene Dascher wrote:

> This should do it for you:
> 
> find . -name "*.class" -exec rm -rf {} ; -print

or use the handy backticks, which runs the commands placed within them, 
returning its output in its place:

rm `find . -name *.class -print`

...useful in many other ways, such as playing all mp3's that have "friday"
in the title:

xmms `find /mp3 | grep -i friday`




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