By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:52:42 +0000

Since the pruning of overcrowded quarantine directories is a pretty much recurring task, I have a handy shell function to do that (incorporates a basic sanity check, skips directories and dotfiles):

wipe() {
if [ "${1}" == "" ] ; then
echo “Wiping out all non-directory files in ${PWD}.”
else
echo “Wiping out all files starting with ‘${1}’ in ${PWD}.”
fi

echo -n ‘Type “YES” to confirm: ‘
read YESNO
if [ "${YESNO}" != "YES" ] ; then
echo ‘Maybe next time.’
return 0
fi

# ok, wipe it
find . $ -name “${1}*” -and \! -name “.*” -and -type f $ -print0 | xargs -0 rm
}

Hope it helps.

Kelas.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:58:20 +0000

It seems that this is a limit inside the kernel and not a limitation of rm or a limitation of the shell. On the other hand if the filenames have white spaces the best way is to do something like this:

find . -name file_names_expr -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Morpheo

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