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Re: Using "find" to get rid of cores etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. Brian Kimmel)
Fri Nov 29 19:52:44 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:22:54 PST."
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:51:37 -0800
From: "D. Brian Kimmel" <briank@alki.kimbro.com>
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> I've been trying to get rid of all cores in my home directory
> which also contains about 100 sub- and subsub-directories
> using find command:
>
> main$ cd
> main$ find ./ -name core -exec rm
> find: missing argument to `-exec'
> main$ find ./ -name core -exec rm {}
> find: missing argument to `-exec'
Almost - the correct syntax is
find . -name core -exec rm {} \;
the part you were missing is the escaped ";" at the end to terminate
the -exec option to find.
Brian
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