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Re: How do I find file "findme" in tree "bigtree" searching only s

Sven Mascheck

2007-08-23, 7:21 pm

Rikishi wrote:

> find bigtree/ -type d -name "in_here" -exec rm -v '{}'/findme ';'

....if the implementation accepts {} not standing "alone".

traditionally (with some exceptions like OpenServer 5) it does not,
nor is it required by POSIX. GNU, BSD, AST, sfind and probably most
other modern variations do.