Reply to post: Re: I learnt to test my WHERE clauses on a DELETE with a SELECT first

Techie basks in praise for restoring workforce email (by stopping his scripting sh!tshow)

Waseem Alkurdi

Re: I learnt to test my WHERE clauses on a DELETE with a SELECT first

On a similar note:

find -name 'file' -delete

This command sucks a{ss,rse}.

Deletes any file that matches the criteria, no confirmation, nor a list of files it blew away.

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