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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Clearing out old .NeXTtrash files as System Administrator
Message-ID: <90100.170123CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 21:01:23 GMT
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Hm.  There are several ways you could do this.  The one that immediately
comes to mind is:  (Make sure the single quotes are *back*quotes!!)

   foreach d (`find / -name ".NeXTtrash" -type d -print`)
      rm -r $d/*
   end

(Note:  You'll want to redirect stderr when you do this!!)


Anyway, the biggest problem with yours is that you need quotes around
".NeXTtrash/*.*", otherwise the shell will try to expand it.  I doubt
it would work anyway, though I haven't tried it.

BTW:  Why "*.*"?  Sounds like MS-LOSS hangover to me.  ;-)


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