From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: recursive rm
Date: 16 May 2000 07:52:20 GMT
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Dr. J. Robert Lee <jrl AT netcom DOT com> wrote:
> group work fine with the Unix "find" command, but
> not with DOS.
[...]
> These are the suggestions for Unix. DOS anyone?

> find . -name "*.o" -exec rm {} \;

That line *does* work with the DJGPP ports of GNU find and GNU
fileutils, almost verbatim. You just have to remove the '\' before the
';', maybe.  Actually, I'ld usually not use '-exec' for that, but

	find . -name "*.o" | xargs rm -v

It's faster by not calling up 'rm' that often, and the '-v' lets you see
what's happening.

OTOH, with DJGPP's enhanced globbing code built into the C runtime
library, it's usually simpler to just

	rm .../*.o

and be done with it. 
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.