script help
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Dec 3 14:10:12 UTC 2008
Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:22:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> That won't work if filenames contain blanks, something I fight daily.
>
> For blanks, do something like "find . -name "*log" -exec rm -fr "{}" \;
>
I have a tiny program called "zeroify" which reads a line from input up to a
newline, replaced the newline with a zero byte, and pushes it out stdout. Then I
can use the "-0" option of xargs and not worry about special characters.
I worry that find is likely to discover things I don't want to remove, although
it can be tamed with "-maxdepth" in most cases.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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