Path: utzoo!yunexus!torsqnt!david
From: david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cleanup script needed
Message-ID: <80@torsqnt.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 00:22:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: torsqnt.80
References: <15659@oberon.USC.EDU> <9793@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes)
Organization: Sequent Computers (Canada) Ltd.
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In article <9793@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
:In article <15659@oberon.USC.EDU> rkumar@buddha.usc.edu () writes:
:>Will rm -r *.dvi do the job?
:
:No, try	"find . -name '*.dvi' -print | xargs rm".
:
Why not, 	"find . -type f -name '*.dvi' -exec rm {} \;" 	?

-david-