Quick scripting question

[fred smith]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 01:52:55PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > How would I script removing a file (globally) ?
> 
> Very carefully. :)

Yes, you need to be very CAREFUL using this suggestion:

There is SUPPOSED to be a program named test on the system, and this
command will remove it.

see:
	ls -l /usr/bin/test
and
	man test

then use this with care.

> 
> > Meaning, say the file name test however, it's in multiple
> > directories throughout the system without having to go into each dir
> > manually.
> 
> This would find any file named test and remove it, by trawling the
> filesystem:
> 
> $ find / -name test | xargs rm
> 
> If the file you want to find has spaces or other odd characters in it,
> you may need to use:
> 
> $ find / -name test -print0 | xargs -0 rm
> 
> You could also use locate instead of find, which would save traversing
> the filesystem, but wouldn't catch files created since the locate db
> was updated last.
> 
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