[plug] deleting stuff in batches

[Russell Steicke]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:03:40PM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
...
> "man find" also says that find . -name '*.wma' -delete 
> will work.
> 
> Whether that is faster than the xargs way, I don't know, but I suspect
> it gets called once per file, but it may not have the overhead of the
> "exec".
> 
> It also says that find . -name "*.wma" -exec rm {} +
> will work.
> from the man page:

What version of find are you using?  This is what happens here (debian
sarge):

  $ mkdir tmp/foo
  $ cd tmp/foo
  $ touch a b c
  $ find . -type f -delete
  find: invalid predicate `-delete'
  $ find . -type f -exec echo rm '{}' +
  find: missing argument to `-exec'
  $ find . -type f -exec echo rm '{}' + \;
  rm ./a +
  rm ./b +
  rm ./c +
  $ find --version
  GNU find version 4.1.20
  $ 




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