Re: [PLUG] saw this on /. this morning.

find -P / -iname '*.dll' -delete

might be what you want. Or, again,

find -P / -iname '*.dll' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 20 rm

(if you have an old enough find that it doesn't have the -delete option, as on some of my machines). The -print0 and -0 collaborate to terminate file names with NULs, so embedded spaces don't cause horrible accidents. And if you find a billion DLLs (for example, you have your Windows partition mounted), no need to blow out the max number of arguments for the rm command: just take 'em out 20 at a time.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Matt Berlin <arkestra@gmail.com> wrote:
> What i was getting at, is would it craw recursively through all dirs in
> root, or only dirs named like *.dll?

The latter. Find everything in root named *.dll, then wipe it out,
whether a single file or a whole directory tree.

On most unix systems it would do nothing at all, since you are
unlikely to have anything named *.dll.

If you do ls /*.dll then whatever it lists is what you'll lose.

In unix the globbing is done before the command is executed. So, bash
sees *.dll and replaces it with a list of files/directories, then
passes it to rm. So, the -r has no effect on which files are selected
initially.

If you want to find and delete all the dll's on your system then
you'll need to use the find command. I always forget the 40 bazillion
command line options for find so I'd probably do find / | grep
'\.dll$' | xargs rm. Replace the rm with an echo for a dry run.

Rich
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