From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aevdm4lj7gqq2er6r42eeeoqr5mo3ok0a5@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109054221.GA28337@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:42:21 -0500, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:55:46AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I
>>use the following line to do this:
>>
>>if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2
>>
>>But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work
>>with wildcard, i.e., the _[ -f *.cache-2 ]_ isn't a valid arg. Any
>>hints on this issue?
>
>Why not just
>
> rm -f *.cache-2
A good idea. Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 4:20 Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-09 5:42 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2009-01-09 7:34 ` Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-09 9:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-09 9:41 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2009-01-09 14:18 ` Eric Blake
2009-01-09 14:31 ` Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-09 15:18 ` Eric Blake
2009-01-10 11:59 ` Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-10 18:36 ` Eric Blake
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