PYTHON 3.4 LEFTOVERS

[YBM]

Le 17.11.2013 10:12, Nikos a écrit :
> Στις 16/11/2013 6:46 μμ, ο/η YBM έγραψε:
>> Le 16.11.2013 17:30, Ferrous Cranus a écrit :
>>> Mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you have to deliberately post like this in an attempt to annoy
>>>> people, would you please not do so using double spaced google crap as
>>>> it's very annoying, thank you in anticipation.
>>>
>>> Sure thing Mark, here:
>>>
>>> root at secure [~]# find / -name python3.4 | rm -rf
>>>
>>> root at secure [~]# locate python3.4
>>> /root/.local/lib/python3.4
>>> /usr/local/include/python3.4m
>>> /usr/local/lib/libpython3.4m.a
>>> /usr/local/lib/python3.4
>>> /usr/local/share/man/man1/python3.4.1
>>>
>>> still there!!!
>>
>> You are utterly stupid:
>>
>> 1st: rm does not read its standard input so doing
>> whatever | rm -fr is useless
>>
>> 2st: even if it had worked (i.e. removed the files) they
>> would still appear with locate, as locate is just reading
>> a database build every day by updatedb (using find btw)
>>
>> What you want to do can be done this way :
>>
>> find / -name python3.4 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
> 'find / -name python34 | xargs -rf' does what i need it do

certainly not with xargs -rf, but with xargs rm -rf

> it works similar to find's built-in exec method using as argument
> whatever matches results to.
>
> find / -name python3.4 -exec rm -rf {}
>
> So both have same effect i assume.

Yes, but they were no xargs in the command lines you wrote
originally, Nikos.

bla bla | rm ...
is not the same as
bla bla | xargs rm ...

do you suffer of some kind of visual illness?