.pyc files...

[Mike Meyer]

Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou <tzot at sil-tec.gr> writes:

> On 14 Nov 2004 13:30:38 GMT, rumours say that Nick Craig-Wood
> <nick at craig-wood.com> might have written:
>
>>This *is* bullet proof though
>>
>>  find . -name '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
>>
>>And if you don't want an error when there aren't any files
>>
>>  find . -name '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f
>>
>>End unix sysadmin lecture ;-)
>
> Minor detail: these are the GNU versions of 'find' and 'xargs' in the
> above example; the traditional UNIX ones do not have the -print0 and -0
> options, respectively.

Hmm. My copy of the find and xargs sources which have those features
both have University of California copyrights on them.

     <mike
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