Re: [BackupPC-users] Search for and delete files from the pool

[Paul F. <pg...@fo...>]

great -- thanks for pointing out the -print0/-0 trick.  i've had
that problem with xargs before...

paul

 > That worked great.  I had to add another couple of parameters "find . -name
 > *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f".  The options -print0 on find and -0 on
 > xargs tell them to use the ascii 0 or null character as a delimiter
 > otherwise you fight with "xargs: unmatched single quote" if your filenames
 > contain single quotes.
 > 
 > 
 > > far preferable:
 > >    # find . -name *.mp3 | xargs rm -f
 > 

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 paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's 73.8 degrees)