a compromise safe way to use find and xargs rm together

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2 total messages Started by David J. MacKenzie Sat, 27 Oct 1990 14:58

#1636

Author: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 1990 14:58

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Here is another safe way to use find and xargs together, if you don't
mind making files with newlines in the name immune to removal.

find / ! -name '*
*' ! -name '.*
*' -atime -10 -print | xargs rm -f
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David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>

Re: a compromise safe way to use find and xargs rm together

#1664

Author: Dan Bernstein
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 22:13

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In article <DJM.90Oct27105828@egypt.eng.umd.edu> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
> Here is another safe way to use find and xargs together, if you don't
> mind making files with newlines in the name immune to removal.
> find / ! -name '*
> *' ! -name '.*
> *' -atime -10 -print | xargs rm -f

No! -name only checks the last component of the path. (A few versions of
find have a -path that would do the trick here, though there are still
all the other metacharacters to worry about, and this feels like quite a
kludge.)

---Dan

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