[nycbug-talk] Deleting Lots of Files.

Francisco Reyes lists at stringsutils.com
Mon Jun 26 13:57:53 EDT 2006


Lonnie Olson writes:

> The definitive replacement of `rm -f ./114*` with many arguments is  
> simply this.
> find . -name "114*" | xargs rm -f
> with the caveat that it will descend into subdirectories.

Why not:
find . -name "114*" -delete



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