[NTLUG:Discuss] Removing lots of Files - help.

[Pervaz Allaudin]

Pardom my ignorance - but would not

rm -rfv *.*~

also work just as well or would it necessarily be too dangerous.

Pervaz

Bobby Sanders wrote:

>Thanks David.
>
>I don't to a _lot_ of administration, completely forgot about the exec
>switch and was too dumb to think about doing man find. Yuk.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Bobby
>
>--On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 13:49:33 -0500, David Camm <dcamm at advwebsys.com> said:
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>  DC> find / -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} \;
>
>Bobby Sanders wrote:
>  >> I want to remove all of the files on my system which end in
>  >> tilde, ~.  I'm running bash, know this should be easy, have read
>  >> lots of Cameron's book, which I love, but can't put my finger on
>  >> this.
>  >> 
>  >> Help please.  Thanks.
>
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