Todd Zullinger wrote:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
WTF????????
Is everyone on drugs, here?
In the current political climate I feel it's best to refrain from
answering that. (Insert dope-smoking smiley here. :)
Or did:
rm -f *.zip
suddenly stop working, for some stupid reason?
I believe the wrinkle the OP had was trying to match case
insensitively. The simplest method for that is
rm -f *.[Zz][Ii][Pp]
Which has already been posted.
Other than that, the other methods are just good ways to illustrate
how many ways you can chain together commands. It's just a fun
exercise. :)
Here's another, that ensures the file has both the right extension *and*
content:
rm \
`find . -name "*.[Zz][Ii][Pp]" | \
file -f - | \
grep "Zip archive" | \
sed -e "s/: .*//"`
(force switch omitted)
So this will not delete zip compressed "xpi" files, nor extensionless
zip files, nor non-zip files with (for whatever reason) zip extensions.
To catch all zip files regardless of extension (or lack thereof) you
would simply omit the "-name" argument to "find".
--
K.
