On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, daniel wrote:
> i'm a perlgeek
> so i'm familiar with its style of regular expressions
> but when i'm trying to use one of those regular expressions in a find
> command,
> i'm not having much luck
> here's what i want to do:
>
>
> find /home/ -name "(.Apple(.*))|(Network Trash
> Folder)|(TheVolumeSettingsFolder)" -print0 | rm -rf
You need "shell glob" style expressions, not full regexps. You also
need to use multiple -name options joined with "-o" for "or" between
them, something like this:
find /home \( -name ".Apple*" -o -name "Network Trash Folder" \
-o -name "TheVolumeSettingsFolder" \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
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