Re: Directory name problem...
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:52:53 -0500
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?
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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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