is it possible to "rm" the find's output ?

[l_Smokie]

Is it possible to delete all the files that appear in the find command's output , for example .. i tried this command in order to delete every file which has been modified more than 8 days ago
in /bla/ directory .

 find /bla/* -mtime +8 | rm

but it didnt work ...
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.

[Dolda2000]

Why of course. You can't pipe the output to rm. rm deletes files that it finds on its command line, not on its standard input. Try this instead:

find /bla/* -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \;

[andutt]

Or like this...

find /bla/* -mtime +8 | xargs rm *

Regards

[Dolda2000]

Yeah, but the problem with xargs is that it chokes on special characters. If you want to use xargs, at least do it like this:

find /bla/* -mtime +8 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

By the way, you do _not_ want to do "xargs rm *", andutt! I think you'll see why if you look at it once more.

[l_Smokie]

ok , it worked ..
thanks for the tips pals ..
peace ,

Smokie :P

[atrain]

Wow... This thread helped me alot...
Got a ton of files off a mac user, and was crawling with shadow files...

so I used: "find */*/._* -print0 | xargs -0 rm"
I'm too lazy to make it automaticly crawl all dirs, it was mainly 2 subdirs in...