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[ILUG] Adding summit to my .bash_profile

[ILUG] Adding summit to my .bash_profile

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Fri Mar 23 16:19:38 GMT 2001


> i wanna add a little line to my .bash_profile so when ever i log in it
> will find dead.letters and delete them. (i'm always doin it:)
> 
> so, can i add the following:
> 
> find /home/staff/bty 'dead.letter' -xdev -exec rm '{}' ';'
> to my .bash_profile?

Almost.

find $HOME -xdev -name 'dead.letter' -exec rm -f {} \;

... would probably be best.

You might consider adding a & to the end to run this in the
background, if you have a big $HOME.

     Colm

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