Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:51:07AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>
>>> find ... -print0 | xargs -0r rm -i
>>
>> This won't work because rm -i reads for confirmation from stdin and rm
>> has no stdin when it's run via xargs.
>
> Hm, you're right. Well one alternative that will definitely work is
>
> find ... -ok rm '{}' ';'
>
> but this looks different to the user and so may be less desirable.
The prompts look a little different but it works. I'd forgotten about the
-ok option.
Thanks!
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