Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:19:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: rmdir of one's pwd (was Re: rmdir of a busy directory) |
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, CaT wrote:
> Matthias Urlichs wrote the following: > > > > Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> writes: > > > > > > This fragment relies on rmdir(1) failing when $file contains "."- So the > > > actual problem is gcc/fixincludes requiring "rmdir $LIB/." to fail (Of > > > cause this can easily be worked around by modifying fixincludes, but is a > > > different topic). > > > > > So get it fixed. Replacing "find ." with "find *" should work nicely.
find . -mindepth 1 will take care of all hidden files quite nicely.
> > Unless, ofcourse, you also want to 'find' through any hidden > files and dirs in that directory, or, that directory is so > large that it wont fit in any of the buffers it would have to. > > (I've had the problem in the past where grep blah * would fail > cos there were jsut too many files in the current dir)
find . -mindepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 grep blah
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