[LBo] how do I recursive delete a file based on pattern match?

[Billy Pollifrone]

Andrew Henry wrote:
> Billy Pollifrone wrote:
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>> find -name "ZbThumbnail.*" -exec rm {} ;
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> Much obliged for the tip Billy, but I still have problems.  I realise tha=
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> is probably the right way to do it, but something is not behaving and I g=
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> errors.  Do you know what the problem could be?
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> andrew at everest:~/Photos$ find -name "ZbThumbnail.info" -exec rm {} ;
> find: missing argument to `-exec'
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Sounds like the shell is messing with the parameters. Do this:

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

Hope this helps.

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