Re: xargs & find documentation EXAMPLE suggestions

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-08-10 Jeff Carr <address@hidden> wrote:
> It'd be really good to have some examples in the xargs man & info pages. 
> One thing I've never know the best way to do is:

> find . |grep CVS |xargs -n 1 rm -rf
[...]

delete anything that contains "CVS" in path or filename?

find . -name '*CVS*' -or -path '*/*CVS*/*' -prune -or -print0 | \
   xargs -0 rm -r

           cu and- agreeing that mre examples than the ones in
           "Cleaning Up" might be a good idea. - reas
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