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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting rm -rf ab returns find: `./ab': No such file or directory Post 302730209 by rinser on Monday 12th of November 2012 10:31:56 AM
Old 11-12-2012
Code:
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$ pwd
/home/dj/dj
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$ ll
total 0
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$ mkdir ab
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$ ll
total 4
drwxrwxr-x. 2 dj dj 4096 Nov 12 15:26 ab
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$ find ./ -name 'ab' -exec rm -f {} \;
rm: cannot remove `./ab': Is a directory
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$ find ./ -name 'ab' -exec rm -rf {} \;
find: `./ab': No such file or directory
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$ ll
total 0
[dj@davidjlvm dj]$

 

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NAME

       knife-exec - Run user scripts using the Chef API DSL

SYNOPSIS

       knife exec (options)

       -E, --exec CODE
	      Provide a snippet of code to evaluate on the command line

DESCRIPTION

       knife exec runs arbitrary ruby scripts in a context similar to that of the shef(1) DSL. See the shef documentation for a description of the
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EXAMPLES

       Make an API call against an arbitrary endpoint
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       Remove the role obsolete from all nodes
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       Generate the expanded run list for hosts in the webserver role
	      knife exec -E 'nodes.find(:roles => "webserver") {|n| n.expand!; n[:recipes]}'

SEE ALSO

       shef(1)

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