X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44EE0684.2000105@byu.net> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:05:24 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rm * , ls * : Invalid argument References: <004b01c6c7b5$9c68ce00$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> In-Reply-To: <004b01c6c7b5$9c68ce00$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 8/24/2006 1:43 PM: >> Is there any way around to do what I want , i.e remove a large number of log >> files using the rm command with the wildcard * argument. > > "find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm" Except that deletes files starting with . (when rm * does not), and does not delete symlinks (when rm * does). Also, you could save a process or two: find -name '*.log' -delete - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7gaE84KuGfSFAYARAjCDAJ9T1eBfELeoIlcuhyX9IcnZJpG6gQCfRjUs djb4wKwykyAzmZJZNwtPWmE= =MWE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/