On 22 May 2002, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:30, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote:
> > > This should always work `find * -exec rm {} \;`
> >
> > Nope. As long as you include an unquoted * on the command line, it
> > should fail. Not verified, but since every other bash command that
> > expands the * fails, I would expect this to fail too.
> >
> > This might work:
> >
> > find . -name '*' -exec rm {} \;
> >
> > Again, not tested, but the other solutions are cleaner anyway.
>
> Why not just:
>
> find . -exec rm {} \;
what is with this ongoing obsession to take a perfectly good
solution and suggest poorer alternatives? find and xargs has
been presented. it works. leave it at that already. sheesh.
rday
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