Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs

[Matthew Seaman]

Graham Bentley wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I once found a very elegant method of recursively
> removing all the word ~tmp files on our Samba
> server (many hundereds of subs)
> 
> It involved find rm xargs and some {}
> 
> It worked very quickly indeed. I have tried to
> find this again but cant and have used alternatives
> that are alot slower.
> 
> Any CLI Gurus point me in the path of enlightenment ?

   find /your/file-system -type f -name '*~tmp*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

or something like that.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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