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Quote:>if i put 'find' command in a piece of script, how could i make it take
>command arguments? ie. i want to delete files with .tmp extension, following
>will just do it:
>find . -name \*.tmp -ok rm {} \;
>then i want to put above in a file, say 'fdel', and i'd like it works in a
>way like:
>'fdel *.tmp', or 'fdel *.dat', etc.
>how? i've tried something without success. any pointers are appreciated.

find . -name \*.$1 -ok rm {}\;

The $1 will be replaced by the first argument of the "fdel" command as in
fdel dat
will be run as
find . -name \*.dat -ok rm {} \;

Good luck

Quote:>find . -name \*.tmp -ok rm {} \;

>then i want to put above in a file, say 'fdel', and i'd like it works in a
>way like:

>'fdel *.tmp', or 'fdel *.dat', etc.

#!/bin/sh
find . -name $1 -ok rm {} \;

Put this in a file called 'fdel' and remove temp files with fdel '*.tmp'.

greetings, pat