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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:44:45 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> cd /tmp/stuff; find -type f | grep tmp$ | awk '{system("rm \"" $0
>> "\""))'
>
> Why does it need to be so complicated?
>
> find /tmp/stuff -name "*.tmp" -exec rm {} \;
Because there's a million ways to do it, and I haven't memorised all the
options for the find command.
In the time that it would take me to look up the options for find, I've
written the command-line out.
Jim
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