Comments on: Removing files with varied capitalization

By: Avdi Grimm

Avdi Grimm — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:00:33 +0000

I demand a Korn shell version.

By: nevans

nevans — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:02:16 +0000

the bash and safe-find way to do this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'rakefile' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

This has the benefits of being four characters longer than Avdi's ruby version, harder for newbies to understand, and outside of our favorite programming language.

By: avdi

avdi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:00:33 +0000

I demand a Korn shell version.

By: nevans

nevans — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:02:16 +0000

the bash and safe-find way to do this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'rakefile' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

This has the benefits of being four characters longer than Avdi's ruby version, harder for newbies to understand, and outside of our favorite programming language.

By: bfabry

bfabry — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:38 +0000

Because I wanted to know what one was, a bash way to do this:

$ls -1 | grep -i rakefile | xargs rm