Piping find or ls with rm commands

hugene · 05-01-2008, 09:40 AM

Hello all,

I want to remove just a set of files from a directory, I am trying the following command:

find . -name "*jambala*" -exec rm {}\;

I get an error:
rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.
rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.
rm: missing operand
.....

where each file name (that I want deleted) should have been.

I am running Suse.

Why isn't the return of the find command returned into {}?

Thanks a lot

beadyallen · 05-01-2008, 09:45 AM

Put a space between {} and \; Then it should work.

hugene · 05-01-2008, 09:47 AM

hehehe thank you very much, who would have thought.

kilgoretrout · 05-01-2008, 10:19 AM

There should be a space between the last } and the \; like so:

find . -name "*jambala*" -exec rm {} \;

instead of:

find . -name "*jambala*" -exec rm {}\;