how do you use rm to del found files

Rusty kujayhawkbb at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 27 17:15:04 CDT 2002


Good grief...IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE....I think I forgot to read, huh??

--- Rusty <kujayhawkbb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Are those backticks or single quotes?
> 
> --- dattaway at attaway.net wrote:
> > 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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