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Hi Charles,
Two questions:
why doesn't the shell handle the wild card?
Depending on which example you're referring to... either the shell DOES
handle the wildcard, or it doesn't handle it because you escaped the
wildcard character.
If you want more detail, please show me the statement you're referring to...
Assuming I don't have and subdirectories that match the name, would
this bite me in some way?
find /mydir/????.fin.cis0000.staf.input01.????????.zip –exec rm {} \;
As Dennis pointed you, you really don't need to use 'find' for something
like this. The way you have it coded, it'll submit a new background job
for every file that matches your ???? expression. While that'll work,
it's rather inefficient.
You could do this instead:
rm /mydir/????.fin.cis0000.staf.input01.????????.zip
That'll accomplish the same thing, and will do it all in one job -- much
more efficient.
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