[12168] in Athena Bugs
sun4 [7.7B]: find
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 28 17:19:21 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 17:19:13 +0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
System name: infocalypse
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7B
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
clean out my homedir, but that's not important right now. I was
trying to do it via a shell script (~yandros/bin/cleanhome) that
runs find, using the `-ok' option.
What went wrong?
Here's the particular invocation:
find . \( -name '.*~' -o -name '*~' -o -name '#*' -o -name '.#*' -o -name 'core' -o -name '.xvpics' \) -ok rm {} \;
The output I got was:
< rm ... >? n
< rm ... >? ^C
Note the lack of the filename from the `{}'s.
Here's a simpler example:
; find . -name core -ok echo \{\} \;
< echo ... >? ^C
What should have happened?
; gfind . -name core -ok echo {} \;
< echo ... ./core > ? ^C
