[Discuss] Command line question
Adam Parkin
pzelnip at telus.net
Wed Jul 26 21:08:56 PDT 2006
/me sheepishly admits that I forgot about cvs export. Duh.
But it was a good learning experience all the same (refresher on find
and xargs). =8->
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Adam Parkin
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Clarke Brunsdon wrote:
> I hope all these messages aren't just because someone doesn't know about
> 'cvs export'.
>
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:17 -0700, Adam Parkin wrote:
>> David Bronaugh wrote:
>>> Deryk Barker wrote:
>>>> Adam Parkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> David Bronaugh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's a quick way of doing this on the command line?
>>>>>> Hmm, if my other mail got through, this is a correction
>>>> See what I mean about find's syntax? :-)
>>> Actually, I was being sloppy with rm...
>> I suppose I was being a bit gullible just taking the command you gave me
>> and running it without taking a close look at it. For all I knew you
>> might've been a malicious hAX0r type and fed me something like:
>>
>> find / -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>
>> and then I would've lost my repository. =8-p
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