On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 11:36 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
> >> Why did this behaviour change, and how can I fix my script?
> >
> > An alternative is
> >
> > find ... -print0 | xargs -0r rm -i
>
> I get the same problem with that!
>
> $ find . -name '*~' -print0 |xargs -0r rm -i
> rm: remove regular file `./.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-20203-vilnius~'?
> rm: remove regular file `./.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-1888-vilnius~'?
> rm: remove regular file
> `./.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-1049-vilnius.co.umist.ac.uk~'? rm:
> remove ...
>
> It prints out the questions, doesn't wait for responses from the keyboard,
> and does nothing.
>
> Have I screwed something up? (This started happening on my home and office
> computers at about the same time.)
Well on 'sarge', under bash, the
find . -name 'whatever' -exec rm -i {} ";"
works as expected for me, but the above example exhibits the same
performance as you note (I'm no 'xargs' expert and can's see what the
'-0r' option is meant to do)
If I were you I'd check that the first form works from the command line
and then take it from there. Are you running bash under sarge?
--
Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
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