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Find wildcard .shtml files in wildcard directories and removing them- How's it done?
Post 3233 by Neo on Wednesday 27th of June 2001 09:06:26 AM
06-27-2001
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You are on the right track. However two things:
(1) Suggest you use the <B>-regex</B> switch of find for pattern matches (and not the -name switch with wildcards). That is how I do it, using regular expressions.
(2) Suggest you execute/test your <B>-exec</B> switch with mv (move) to a temporary directory before executing rm (remove) to insure things work as planned
This is always a good practice, regardless of the level of skill and confidence. Moving files to a temporary directory before deleting has a lot of benefits, most of all, you will not ruin your day with a typo or other mistake!!
(1) Suggest you use the <B>-regex</B> switch of find for pattern matches (and not the -name switch with wildcards). That is how I do it, using regular expressions.
(2) Suggest you execute/test your <B>-exec</B> switch with mv (move) to a temporary directory before executing rm (remove) to insure things work as planned
This is always a good practice, regardless of the level of skill and confidence. Moving files to a temporary directory before deleting has a lot of benefits, most of all, you will not ruin your day with a typo or other mistake!!|
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pegasus-remove
PEGASUS-REMOVE(1) PEGASUS-REMOVE(1) NAME
pegasus-remove - removes a workflow that has been planned and submitted using pegasus-plan and pegasus-run SYNOPSIS
pegasus-remove [-d dagid] [-v] [rundir] DESCRIPTION
The pegasus-remove command remove a submitted/running workflow that has been planned and submitted using pegasus-plan and pegasus-run. The command can be invoked either in the planned directory with no options and arguments or just the full path to the run directory. OPTIONS
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If the workflow is removed successfully pegasus-remove returns with an exit code of 0. However, in case of error, a non-zero exit code indicates problems. An error message clearly marks the cause. FILES
The following files are opened: braindump This file is located in the rundir. pegasus-remove uses this file to find out paths to several other files. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
PATH The path variable is used to locate binary for condor_rm. SEE ALSO
pegasus-plan(1), pegasus-run(1) AUTHORS
Gaurang Mehta <gmehta at isi dot edu> Jens-S. Vockler <voeckler at isi dot edu> Pegasus Team http://pegasus.isi.edu 05/24/2012 PEGASUS-REMOVE(1)