how do you use rm to del found files

[Gerald Combs]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 dattaway at attaway.net wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Gene Dascher wrote:
> 
> > This should do it for you:
> > 
> > find . -name "*.class" -exec rm -rf {} ; -print
> 
> or use the handy backticks, which runs the commands placed within them, 
> returning its output in its place:
> 
> rm `find . -name *.class -print`
> 
> ...useful in many other ways, such as playing all mp3's that have "friday"
> in the title:
> 
> xmms `find /mp3 | grep -i friday`

...or use the "xargs" command:

  find . -name "*.class" | xargs rm -rf

which isn't very different from Gene's answer unless you have the
misfortune of running Ultrix.  The ";" argument didn't work when I used
Ultrix.  Dunno if they ever fixed it.