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Re: [Groff] deletion of *~ files for `make mostlyclean'
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MARSHALL Keith |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] deletion of *~ files for `make mostlyclean' |
Date: |
Mon, 17 May 2004 09:14:48 +0100 |
>> The portable way to do this is surely
>>
>> -find -type f -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} \;
>
> Or this:
>
> -rm -f `find -type f -name '*~'`
Agreed, this would also work, and probably be more efficient.
There is however, one possible problem: if there are a lot of
matches, there is a danger of overflowing the command line
buffer. Admittedly, this is unlikely -- the days of the 127
byte limit of MS-DOS are hopefully now well behind us! IIRC,
Windows now has a limit of 2048 bytes; clearly an improvement,
but still smaller than what is typical of *nix systems.
Best regards,
Keith.