script help

[Bill Davidsen]

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:22:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> That won't work if filenames contain blanks, something I fight daily.
> 
> For blanks, do something like "find . -name "*log" -exec rm -fr "{}" \;
> 
I have a tiny program called "zeroify" which reads a line from input up to a 
newline, replaced the newline with a zero byte, and pushes it out stdout. Then I 
can use the "-0" option of xargs and not worry about special characters.

I worry that find is likely to discover things I don't want to remove, although 
it can be tamed with "-maxdepth" in most cases.

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