Re: Unremovable files.
- From: Bill Campbell <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:51:28 -0700
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006, Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
OSR 5.0.6/506a
There is a directory for which 'ls -l' prints scores of entries that all
look like this:
l: ./8_7732.trc not found: No such file or directory (error 2)
In all likelihood these files contain whitespace or some other
characters that the shell is expanding to prevent the rm command
from seeing.
One solution to this might be:
cd path_do_directory
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
The ``-print0'' argument to find has it separate entries with NUL
characters, and the ``-0'' argument to xargs tells it to expect
NUL terminated arguments.
BTW: This is the expected behavior with gnu-ish versions of find
and xargs. The vanilla find command on 5.0.6? doesn't seem to
grok that.
Bill
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