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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find with xargs to rm found files Post 302444181 by methyl on Wednesday 11th of August 2010 06:08:45 AM
Old 08-11-2010
Quote:
find $HOME -name /directory/filename | xargs -l rm
The above syntax for "find" will never find any file.

Please post a the full hierarchial name of example files which you wish to find and delete - stating which directory tree(s) to search.

Also, do any of your target filenames or directory names contain space characters?
 

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