[wplug] find & -exec / -ok
Vanco, Don
don.vanco at agilysys.com
Thu Sep 25 16:15:48 EDT 2003
Argh. "find" is not behaving as expected.
Scenario:
USB hard drive (based Linux MP3 player) that spends time attached to a
Windoze box. Windoze (through "folder settings") pollutes the drive with,
among other things, a "Desktop.ini" file in every directory.
I expect that this:
find . -name *.ini -exec rm {} \;
...will delete all this crap.
Further, I expect that
find . -name *.ini -ok rm {} \;
....will do the same but prompt me for each deletion.
In both cases I get a response that tells me I am not providing an
appropriate argument to either -ok or -exec.
WTF?
(have tried in multiple shells)
Don
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