[TriLUG] find and rm command

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:54, Tobias Gloth wrote:

> Also, as others have said, with combinations of find and rm, it's good to
> be paranoid.  So, leave away the -r on rm.  It's also good practice to only
> find files and skip directories.
> 
> So, this might be a better solution:
> 
> find /home/directory -name thumbs.db -type f -print | xargs rm -f
> 

This may have already been mentioned, but always test your commands
first before running them, if you're planning on deleting things.  It's
simple to modify the above:
	find /home/directory -name thumbs.db -type f -print |
	echo xargs rm -f

This will just output the commands that will be excuted, with "echo,"
rather than actually deleting anything.  Then, if you're sure it's what
you want, re-run the command without the echo.

Hope this helps,
Jeremy

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