how do you use rm to del found files

Rusty kujayhawkbb at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 27 15:14:51 CDT 2002


Are those backticks or single quotes?

--- dattaway at attaway.net wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Gene Dascher wrote:
> 
> > This should do it for you:
> > 
> > find . -name "*.class" -exec rm -rf {} ; -print
> 
> or use the handy backticks, which runs the commands placed within them, 
> returning its output in its place:
> 
> rm `find . -name *.class -print`
> 
> ...useful in many other ways, such as playing all mp3's that have "friday"
> in the title:
> 
> xmms `find /mp3 | grep -i friday`
> 
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