Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Directory name problem... | Date | Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:52:53 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199810252024.WAA56334@vipunen.hut.fi>, Juha Virtanen writes: +----- | Tim Smith writes: | :>> % Q> #!/bin/sh | :>> % Q> XYZZY="`find / -name core`" | :>> % Q> for LOOP in `find $XYZZY | sort -ru` ; do | :>> % Q> rm -fr $LOOP | :>> % Q> done | :> | :>You know, interesting things will happen when he runs that script | :>and there are *not* any files named core around... | | Nothing interesting happena as | rm -rf | as itself does nothing and won't give any error message. +--->8
How about `find' with no arguments, though?
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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