Mass find/replace...

[Matthew Seaman]

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Peter Boosten wrote:
| Marc Coyles wrote:
|> I'm presuming it'd be:
|>
|> Find /home/horbury -type f -name "*.bak" -exec \
|> 	Rm *.bak
|>
|
| find /home/horbury -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \;
|

find /home/horbury -type f -name '*.bak' -delete

'delete' is a find primitive -- no need to exec any other processes.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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