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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:13:04 +0000
From: Pascal Byrne <pbyrne@ie.oracle.com>
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To: Claus Alboege <tractrix@kom.auc.dk>
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Subject: Re: rm -r
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*.o is interpreted by zsh as: expand all the filnames in the current
directory matching '*.o' and the pass these as arguments to 'rm' which isn't
what you want (try pressing <tab> to see the expansion).

If there are a small number of files try:
  rm -f **/*.o
or if the expansion will result in more file names than can be passed on the
command line:
  find . -name '*.o' | xargs rm -f

-pascal


Claus Alboege wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could anyone tell me a way to make the following work from a z-shell:
>
> rm -rf *.o (this dosn't work)
>
> What I want is to remove all .o files recursive , but the "-r switch" in
> the above isn't a correct way to do it.
>
> --
>  Claus Alboege

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