[wplug] RESOLVED: RE: find & -exec / -ok

[Vanco, Don]

Fah!
I hopped out of X (using Gnome Multi Terminal) and it worked fine from
command line.

Don


Vanco, Don <> scribbled on Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:16 PM:
> 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