Problem deleting files

@lbutlr kremels at kreme.com
Sun Jul 1 20:07:44 UTC 2018


On 01 Jul 2018, at 13:13, Paul Schmehl <paul.schmehl at gmail.com> wrote:
> find . -type f -exec rm [] \; returns rm: []: No such file or directory over and over again.

Should be {} and not []

But for non-ancient versions of find, this will work

find . -type f -delete

(I find it much easier to remember and certainly easier to type)


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