need help for SCO Xenix Sys V 286. ver 2.1.3
Earl H. Kinmonth
ked at garnet.berkeley.edu
Sun Apr 30 02:21:41 AEST 1989
In article <1689 at wasatch.utah.edu> ch-tkr at wasatch.utah.edu (Timothy K Reynolds) writes:
>My Problem: we are removing some old users from the system. But we can't
>clean their directories due to some odd files which still exist. The files
>apparently have non-ascii characters in them (as determined by "ls > tmp"
>and trying to edit tmp in vi.
>
>Anybody out there know how to get around this problem? I would really
>appreciate your help with this matter.
One way is to pipe the output of find into a simple program that unlinks
files as in
find . -type f -print | zapcrap
where the program zapcrap is
#include <stdio.h>
char ls[BUFSIZ];
main()
{
while(gets(ls)) unlink(ls);
}
Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
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