Comments on: Spring Cleaning http://www.thelinuxblog.com/spring-cleaning/ The Linux Blog, General Linux, Shell Scripts Fri, 17 May 2013 01:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TheLinuxBlog.com http://www.thelinuxblog.com/spring-cleaning/comment-page-1/#comment-6911 TheLinuxBlog.com Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:11:21 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/#comment-6911 You’re right, and quicker + xargs can handle more results I believe. I used the while method to use echo and less so that I could confirm that I wanted to delete them. I guess xargs would have worked for that, but it would have been two steps.

]]> By: Andre http://www.thelinuxblog.com/spring-cleaning/comment-page-1/#comment-6910 Andre Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:19:46 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/#comment-6910 Nice post ! Wouldn’t ist be simpler to use xargs for this ?

find . -iname “thumbs.db” | xargs rm

instead

find . -iname “thumbs.db” | while read i ; do rm “$i”; done;

]]> By: TheLinuxBlog.com http://www.thelinuxblog.com/spring-cleaning/comment-page-1/#comment-6794 TheLinuxBlog.com Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:50:14 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/#comment-6794 Yes. This is true thanks for commenting.

]]> By: TheLinuxBlog.com http://www.thelinuxblog.com/spring-cleaning/comment-page-1/#comment-6793 TheLinuxBlog.com Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:49:10 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/#comment-6793 Meh. I use them from to time. Most cases I don’t just beacause I’m lazy or am grepping the results

]]> By: Pirat http://www.thelinuxblog.com/spring-cleaning/comment-page-1/#comment-6792 Pirat Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:06:10 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/#comment-6792 Instead using pipes you can simply call delete from find.
ie. find . -iname “thumbs.db” -delete
also handy is finding empty directories:
find . -type d -empty
Regards

]]> By: micah http://www.thelinuxblog.com/spring-cleaning/comment-page-1/#comment-6791 micah Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:22:55 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/#comment-6791 no love for -exec or -execdir?

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