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Let’s say, you find a cool shell trick that you want to share with a short explanation.
Below is one such example. Often, we need to recursively seek and destroy all .pyc files
within current directly. The following command does that for us in bash shell.
find . -name "*.pyc" -type f -exec rm "{}" \;
Simply typing find . -name "*.pyc" -type f would list all files (and not directories)
whose name matches the glob *.pyc within the directory . (current directory).
find also accepts -exec option in both Linux and MacOS (though -delete
option may not
always be available). See other variants
here.