Re: best way to find and delete (may contains directories)

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 3/27/21 10:16 PM, James Youngman wrote:
>  Personally, I would probably use -delete to avoid the overhead of -exec
> entirely (the explicit -depth is essentially only there for documentation):
> 
> find . -depth \( -path '*0/*' -o -path '*0' \) -delete
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Just to clarify further: the above pattern for -path is not the same
as specifying '-name 0', because it would match any file or directory
which ends on "0", like e.g. "dir0".

The following is therefore closer to the original (yet still avoiding
to spawn a separate process):

  find . -depth \( -path '*/0/*' -o -path '*/0' \) -delete
or
  find . -depth \( -path '*/0/*' -o -name 0 \) -delete

As James mentioned, explicitly specifying -depth is not necessary as it
is implied by -delete, still it comes handy when you first want to have
a look which files would be deleted by exchanging -delete by -print;
it would still enforce the depth-first method:

  find . -depth \( -path '*/0/*' -o -name 0 \) -print

Have a nice day,
Berny