On 3/27/21 10:16 PM, James Youngman wrote: > Personally, I would probably use -delete to avoid the overhead of -exec > entirely (the explicit -depth is essentially only there for documentation): > > find . -depth \( -path '*0/*' -o -path '*0' \) -delete __________________________^^______________^^
Just to clarify further: the above pattern for -path is not the same as specifying '-name 0', because it would match any file or directory which ends on "0", like e.g. "dir0". The following is therefore closer to the original (yet still avoiding to spawn a separate process): find . -depth \( -path '*/0/*' -o -path '*/0' \) -delete or find . -depth \( -path '*/0/*' -o -name 0 \) -delete As James mentioned, explicitly specifying -depth is not necessary as it is implied by -delete, still it comes handy when you first want to have a look which files would be deleted by exchanging -delete by -print; it would still enforce the depth-first method: find . -depth \( -path '*/0/*' -o -name 0 \) -print Have a nice day, Berny
