On 07/13/2017 11:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:50:50 -0700
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> Of course, you COULD use "-delete" in the find command rather than
>> doing an "-exec rm {} \;":
>
> Or for anything that would run a command that takes a
> list of arguments (rm, chown, chmod, etc) you could
> use -print0 in the find command and pipe it to xargs -0
I think the confusion the OP had was that he/she didn't realize that the
"\;" bit of the line was part of the find command and didn't separate
the find command from the subsequent "rm" command on that line. They
needed "\; ;rm -f ........." to do what they wanted.
Just one of the oddities of stringing commands together in a shell.
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