Messages in this thread |  | | From | shields@crosslin ... | Subject | Re: Drawbacks of implementing undelete entirely in user space | Date | 23 Jun 1996 00:32:41 -0000 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960622143613.722G-100000@gytha.demon.co.uk>, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk> wrote: > find / -name '.wastebasket/*' -amin 60 -exec rm {} \; > > > It's a real pity that doesn't work :( it would if 'somefile', and > '.somefile' wern't treated differantly, but they are so .... (perhaps it > needs fixing)
I'm not personally in favor of .wastebasket, but people should know how to use find, so:
find / -name .wastebasket -amin 60 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
But you're better off doing this in Perl using File::Find and iterating only over user home directories. -- Shields, CrossLink.
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