Delete files by extension. Delete files to display.

The first part of the assignment works, but how to add a conclusion to this?

find $1 -name "*.$2" -print0 | xargs -0r rm --

    2 answers 2

    The easiest way is to add the -t switch to the -t utility. In this case, it will print the command being executed.

    However, if this output format does not suit you, you can copy the output of the find utility to a temporary file. And then print its contents. For example,

     tempfile=`mktemp` find "$1" -name "*.$2" -print0 | tee "${tempfile}" | xargs -0r rm -- cat "${tempfile}" | xargs -0ri echo "Файл '{}' был удалён" rm -- "${tempfile}"
    • Or even a little cheating: first print messages, and then delete - mymedia

    Good day!

    if you simply output deleted files to a string, you can try this:

     find $1 -name "*.$2" -print0 -delete

    or

     find $1 -name "*.$2" -print0 -exec rm {} +

    The output will be something like this:

     ./1.txt./2.txt./3.txt