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To: Ancient Drive

Off-topic: -exec does a fork/exec for every item found. If you’re expecting find to encounter a large list, it’s far more effective to do:

find . -type f -name “Seztac.mp3” | xargs rm -f

:-)


29 posted on 05/27/2010 4:23:41 PM PDT by pcgTheDestroyer
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To: pcgTheDestroyer; cardinal4

Reminds me of that time when Clinton was on TV during Monica with one of his shills. They said that an explanation would be forthcoming “sooner rather than later, and more rather than less.”


32 posted on 05/27/2010 4:29:51 PM PDT by Ax
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To: pcgTheDestroyer

touché :)


36 posted on 05/27/2010 5:16:58 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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