On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:56, Joe Nestlerode wrote: > Thank you, that works beautifully. I modified it slightly to allow a > user to enter a search pattern on the command line, to wit: > > #!/bin/sh > > echo -e "Enter a file or pattern to search for...\n" > read file > > for i in `find . -name "$file"` > do rm -i $i > done > > exit 0
You might want to use -iname, instead of -name, to do a case-insensitive search. This is useful if the user has a Windows background, where they are not used to file names being case sensitive. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
