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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using "find" and "-exec rm" ... Just no luck :( Post 302347811 by methyl on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 12:48:06 PM
Old 08-26-2009
The second version is nearly there. It uses "rm -f" (files) rather than "rm -rf" (directories), but will still not deal with filenames containing spaces.

You need double quotes round the curly braces to preserve spaces.

Test with "echo" not real "rm" then remove the echo when you are happy.

Code:
if [ -f $DELETE ] ;then
cat $DELETE | while read file; do find $HOME -name "$file" -exec echo rm -f "{}" \;
done
mv -f $UPDATE/inbox/delete.txt $UPDATE/trash
fi

 

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fiaif-update

FIAIF-UPDATE(8) 				      Administration and Privileged Commands					   FIAIF-UPDATE(8)

NAME

       fiaif-update - tests for new version and updated reserved_networks file.

SYNOPSIS

       fiaif-update [--silent] [--help] <update|check>

DESCRIPTION

       Tests for new version and updated reserved_networks file.

       --silent
	      If this flag is present, then no textual output will be given.

       check  Test if a new version of FIAIF is available.

       update Retrieves  the  files  reserved_networks	from  the FIAIF website, and compared the version with the currently installed version, as
	      pointed to by fiaif.conf.  If the retrieved version is newer, the old version is silently replaced.

       help   Prints the synopsis.

EXIT CODE

       If updating the exit code will be non-zero if no update was performed, else the exit code will be zero.

FILES

       /etc/fiaif/fiaif.conf
	      The configuration file for FIAIF
       /etc/fiaif/private_networks
	      A list of private networks as specified by RFC1918
       /etc/fiaif/reserved_networks
	      A list of reserved networks as specified by IANA.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <fiaif@fiaif.net>.

AUTHOR

       Anders Fugmann <anders(at)fugmann.net>

SEE ALSO

       fiaif(8), fiaif.conf(5)

Linux								     Feb 2003							   FIAIF-UPDATE(8)
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