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From: stehman@jade.southwind.net (Jeff Stehman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Stupid Question
Date: 7 Jun 1996 21:16:00 GMT
Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
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Dave A. Flanigan (entropy@newreach.net) wrote:
: Is there a simple command that I can use in BSDI to telete every
: occurance of a particular filename? Like if I wanted to delete every
: rhosts file on my system, any other file.
:
: I figured some varation of Find would work, but I cannot seem
: to put together one that works... and I am loth to experiment to much.
Always a good idea not to experiment from root. :-)
find . -name foo.bar -exec rm {} \;
would be a simple way to remove all foo.bar files in or below the current
directory. When doing something like this system wide, I like to run a
safe version first:
find . -name foo.bar -exec ls -l {} \;
just to make sure I know what I'm getting into-- particularly if I'm
removing something involving a wild card ('*.core' for example). BSD/OS's
find supports -ls, but I like the command to be very close to the rm
version I'll be using.
On systems with sizable NFS mounted filesystems I usually prune them:
find . ! \( -fstype nfs -prune \) -name foo.bar...
(I learned the "never let find go into an NFS mounted file system unless
you intentionally send it there" lesson a long time ago. :-)
Create a few subdirectories and files so you can experiment from a
regular account.
--
Jeff Stehman Senior Systems Administrator
stehman@southwind.net SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
voice: (316)263-7963 Wichita, KS
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