On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:49:43 +0300 Meir Faraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Hi ,
> I've tryed this :
> [root@localhost myscripts]# find .. -name "*.class" | rm
> rm: too few arguments
> Try `rm --help' for more information.
rm doesn't take input from stdin. Things like ls, rm, cp and several
others don't read stdin.
you can try:
find .. -name \*.class -exec rm {} \;
Escaping the splat will prevent the shell from interperting it, thus
passing it to find(1).
find plus a regex is _very_ powerful. It can also produce some
unexpected results too so be careful when coupling it w/ -exec
See the killer ORA owl book ("Mastering Regualr Expressions", I think)
for more strange and wonderful things you can do with regex's. He's got
a one page regex for parsing mail headers. It's truly a work of art -
looks like a bunch of line noise.
>
>
> when :
>
> [root@localhost myscripts]# find .. -name "*.class"
> ../client/core/org/NoNextComponentException.class
> ../client/core/org/NoPartSelectedException.class
> ../client/core/org/PartNotFoundException.class
> ../client/core/org/XMLFactory.class
> ../client/core/org/XMLGui.class
> ../client/core/shell/component/XMLComponent.class
> ../client/core/shell/container/XMLPanel.class
> ../client/core/shell/main/NetSharer$1.class
> ../client/core/shell/main/NetSharer.class
> ../client/core/utils/codecs/Base64.class
>
> so rm doesn't see the pipe ;-)
>
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