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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: executing down directory tree
- Message-ID: <9208141303@umunk.GUN.de>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:04:34 GMT
- References: <92Aug11.064118edt.246474@descartes.uwaterloo.ca>
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- bbobak@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Brad Bobak) writes:
- : In article <5550@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> you write:
- : >
- : >how to i do a certain task in the current directory and all it's sub-
- : >directories? i'd like to be able to do:
- : > global rm *~
- : >to remove backup files.
- : > thomas
- :
- : How bout something like:
- :
- : find . -name '*~' -exec rm {} \;
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- How about rm -r ?
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