cleanup script needed

David Haynes david at torsqnt.UUCP
Mon Mar 6 10:22:17 AEST 1989


In article <9793 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
:In article <15659 at oberon.USC.EDU> rkumar at buddha.usc.edu () writes:
:>Will rm -r *.dvi do the job?
:
:No, try	"find . -name '*.dvi' -print | xargs rm".
:
Why not, 	"find . -type f -name '*.dvi' -exec rm {} \;" 	?

-david-



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