Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Usage of exec in find command in unix


If U want to delete a files name stored in a path

Example    ex is a folder which contain one.txt two.txt three.txt 

If U want to delete this in one command 

use   find . -type f -exec rm {} \;

 here .  means search current directory
         f is for plain file type  (more info man pages)
       for exec rm is the command
       it should be terminated by \; 


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