UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

here you forget ;

try simple example below first, this will print all files from home directory

Code:

$ find ~ -type f -exec ls {} \; 2>/dev/null

By the way you cannot shred directories,
why you do not use simple rm -rf $TRASH/$1 instead of shred/rm?

Well its for course work and I will be aliasing my script to "rm" so I would be calling my script, I could use /bin/rm but thats not allowed.

BTW I tried that command with space and still -exec error about arguments.

Any ideas?

I added the ;

Thanlks for your troubles

Jack

Well we don't allow homework/coursework here, but since you have made the main effort I'll bend the rule. You can do it the way you originally intended. You need to combine it with a find command similar to the one above, but you will need it to work on directories you will also encounter one more problem doing this but you should be able to figure it out by reading the man pages for find.

Thanks,

I am runnign the find command in the above script to shred and I still get missing argument to -exec as an error message, I have it printed exactly as above with the ";" added and space at the end.

Any ideas why it won't work in my script, BTW it works from the command line becase I ran it without a file argument and it deletd all my files!!

Ta

Jack

try to surround path with quotes

find "$TRASH/$1" -type f -exec shred -fu '{}'; \ 2>/dev/null

I this wouldn't work I haven't any idea where the problem is

look very closely at what is already quoted.