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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Josef Assad wrote:
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> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > Bryen wrote:
> > I did a
> > find . -name -exec rm \{\}\;
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> Just curious; what use cases are there for calling find with -name
> without a pattern for -name?


ooops.  that should have been
find . -print -exec rm \{\}\;

> > I *SHOULD have done
> >
> > find /tmp -name rm \{\} \;
>
> This one too; looks to me like the pattern being passed to -name is rm
> itself...

find /tmp -print rm \{\} \;


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