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Re: xargs & find documentation EXAMPLE suggestions
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Andreas Metzler |
Subject: |
Re: xargs & find documentation EXAMPLE suggestions |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:31:21 +0200 |
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On 2004-08-10 Jeff Carr <address@hidden> wrote:
> It'd be really good to have some examples in the xargs man & info pages.
> One thing I've never know the best way to do is:
> find . |grep CVS |xargs -n 1 rm -rf
[...]
delete anything that contains "CVS" in path or filename?
find . -name '*CVS*' -or -path '*/*CVS*/*' -prune -or -print0 | \
xargs -0 rm -r
cu and- agreeing that mre examples than the ones in
"Cleaning Up" might be a good idea. - reas
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