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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cleanup script needed
Message-ID: <9802@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Mar 89 12:46:04 GMT
References: <15659@oberon.USC.EDU> <9793@smoke.BRL.MIL> <80@torsqnt.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <80@torsqnt.UUCP> david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
>Why not, 	"find . -type f -name '*.dvi' -exec rm {} \;" 	?

From the context of his question, the "-type f" seemed unnecessary.
The reason for using xargs instead of -exec is to make the command
finish in less time.  (I know BSD systems often don't have xargs,
but presumably one could use the "apply" utility instead.)