help with command line deletion (the OP weighs in again)

[David Herren]

On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Norman Gray wrote:

> Thus returning to the OP's question, yes, the various suggestions  
> about which 'find' options would solve his problem were manifestly  
> correct and informative, but the subtleties involved in getting the  
> pipe+xargs technique correct (ie, -0) are additionally useful for  
> other cases where you'd want to do something to a long list of files.
>
> It's a `teach a man to fish...' remark.  Which are key techniques,  
> and which are wrinkles?

As the OP, I just wanted to once again say thanks for the help from  
everyone. I always keep interesting/useful discussions like this as  
references for later, and since I didn't even know about xargs at  
all, I'm off to read the man pages on that (or perhaps even to  
experiment with manopen/opeman that I've also just learned about...).

This has been so useful, I hesitate to add this footnote. I have  
asked questions on this list in the past. This was the most  
successful and fruitful result ever.  I wish all questions were dealt  
with so healthily and usefully--in the past I have been (and have  
seen others berated) for my (their) ignorance. I just want to say  
thanks for helping me learn something this time.


/david

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