Help me to understand this command: find...| grep -e ... | xargs rm -f

ROBERT483599 · 02-14-2006, 07:41 AM

Hi,

can anyone help me to understand this command?

find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT | grep -e "\\.la$" | xargs rm -f

I have a clue it has to find files SOMEWHERE containing
.la suffix, exclude the rest and delete them.

Please, give me more specific explanation of this.

Thank you.

_KDF · 02-14-2006, 07:55 AM

Read up on regular expressions, will help you understand this and future commands like this !

ROBERT483599 · 02-14-2006, 08:21 AM

Hi,

thanks for concern. I have tens of windows on with Linux help pages however some of the descriptions / explanations are hard to crack.
I am learning to understand it and thought that off-book explanation is better for me to get into my brain-cells.