Re: OT - Getting fired for database oops

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:52:47 -0700

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Robert Freeman
<robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Try removing the space between the escape and the {}... Worked for me on
> RHEL 5.
>
> find .  -exec rm -rf {} \;
>

That was it.

Though as xargs is nearly always better than -exec, I don't care too much
if I can't get -exec to work right.  :)

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