Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 22:47, Don Russell wrote:
I see how
ls | grep -i '\.zip$' | xargs rm
is the preferred method of the three above....
But... in reading the man pages for xargs, it says this may be
problematic if the file name contain blanks.
If you don't mind directory recursion:
find -iname '*.zip' -print0 |xargs -0 rm
What's your opinion of
rm *.[zZ][iI][pP]
Although, if I understand properly what's happening here, the pipe
solution allows files to be erased as they are found in the filelist,
while the gobbing method first requires that all files that match be
found, then each command is executed one after another.
No, this is the most efficient if it fits the command line buffer.
The shell expands the file list and gives the expanded command
line to one invocation of rm.
Ah.... I see...
So the most *robust* would be:
ls -a | grep --null -iE \\.zip$ | xargs --null rm -f
That would erase all file ending with any .zip in any combination of
upper and lower case characters, even if the file namehave any embedded
spaces or other "special" characters.
Don
