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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find command Post 9735 by Neo on Thursday 1st of November 2001 11:05:57 PM
Old 11-02-2001
find /tmp -type f -regex .*\/t[^\/]*$ -exec rm {} \;

rm */t* will not remove recursively will it? It will only remove files beginning with a t in all directories one level down (at least that is what happens on our systems here....)

Also,

rm -rf t* does not work because this will remove directories AND files that start with a t.


Also,

rm -f `find /tmp|grep t*` will also remove directories will it not?

So, I think you may have to add the -type f switch to find to insure that directories are not removed, right? Becomes:

rm -f `find -type f /tmp|grep t*

However, this also has problems because find returns the full path name so the syntax above will not work, seems to me Smilie

Which implies that the suggestion

find /tmp/ -name "t*" -exec rm -i {} \;

Also does not work Smilie because find returns the full path name on our systems. From here, seems like Perderabo's"

find /tmp \( ! -name /tmp -prune \) -type f -name t\*....

However, This does not work for me either !!!! Smilie

I suggest a variation of:

find /tmp -type f -regex .*\/t[^\/]*$ -exec rm {} \;

Which should work right?? Smilie It finds only regular files, searches for t's after / and insures that no more /s exist before the end of the filename, then removes it......

BTW: Here is a URL to a summary for how to use regex (regular expressions)

Click
here for an even better page on Regular Expressions ....


To get a feel for what the expression can do try this:

find / -type f -regex .*\/t[^\/]*$ | more

This seems to work on our systems ......
 

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HXCOPY(1)							  HTML-XML-utils							 HXCOPY(1)

NAME
hxcopy - copy an HTML file and update its relative links SYNOPSIS
hxcopy [ -i old-URL ] [ -o new-URL ] [ file-or-URL [ file-or-URL ] ] DESCRIPTION
The hxcopy command copies its first argument to its second argument, while updating relative links. The input is assumed to be HTML or XHTML and may be slightly reformatted in the process. If the second argument is omitted, hxcopy writes to standard output. In this case the option -o is required. If the first argument is also omitted, hxcopy reads from standard input. In this case the option -i is required. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -i old-URL For the purposes of updating relative links, act as if old-URL is the location from which the input is copied. If this option is omitted, the actual location of the first argument is used for calculating relative links. -o new-URL For the purposed of updating relative links, act as if new-URL is the location to which the input is copied. If this option is omitted, the actual location of the second argument is used for calculating relative links. ENVIRONMENT
To use a proxy to retrieve remote files, set the environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy. E.g., http_proxy="http://localhost:8080/" BUGS
Unlike the last argument of cp(1), the last argument of hxcopy must be a file, not a directory. The second argument must be a local file. Writing to a URL is not yet implemented. To work around this, replace hxcopy file.html http://example.org/file.html by hxcopy -o http://example.org/file.html file.html tmp.html and then upload tmp.html to the given URL with some other command, such as curl(1). The first argument, however, may be a URL. hxcopy will download the given file. (Currently only HTTP is supported.) EXAMPLE
Assume the HTML file foo.html contains a relative link to "../bar.html". Here are some examples of commands: hxcopy foo.html bar/foo.html The file foo.html is copied to ../bar/foo.html and the relative link to "../bar.html" becomes "../../bar.html". hxcopy foo.html ../foo.html The file foo.html is copied to ../foo.html and the relative link to "../bar.html" is rewritten as "bar.html". hxcopy -i http://my.org/dir1/foo.html -o http://my.org/foo.html file1.html file2.html The file file1.html is copied to file2.html and the relative link to "../bar.html" is rewritten as "bar.html". A command like this may be useful to update files that are later uploaded to a server. SEE ALSO
cp(1), curl(1), hxwls(1) 6.x 9 Dec 2008 HXCOPY(1)
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