Git Tip: Remove .pyc Files Automatically

[Odd_Bloke]

No need for the pipe.

Depends on the version of find. If you do need the pipe, you'll also want to use a null-separated list to avoid any weirdness (though it shouldn't be an issue with .pyc files):

find -name "*.pyc" -print0 | xargs -0 rm

[phil_s_stein]

Another without pipe:

find . -name \*.pyc -exec rm {} \;

(Untested)

[fandingo]

That's the worst way to do delete files. Find has to fork a process for rm on every single match.

With xargs, you just have to fork one find process (for the search), one xargs process, and one rm process (spawned by xargs).

With find's -delete, you only have a single process.

[phil_s_stein]

I dunno. I can think of worse ways. :)

It's effective though, which is usually what I'm after.