Monday, July 28, 2008

rm -rf

I see some guys visiting my blog for rm -rf reference. I will write a short note on the usage of rm

Never, ever run this command: rm -rf /*

Combining with find:
[arun@om]$ find . -name "*.T" -exec grep -H "Hello" {} \;
./1.T:Hello
./Name/a.T: Hello Buddy;

To find and delete all the files under the current directory, having extension .T
[arun@om]$ find . -name "*.T" -exec rm {} \;

This is essentially, the power of find to fork rm process.

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