.pyc files...

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net> wrote:
> 
>> >> alias cleanpy="find . -name '*.pyc' -exec rm {} ';'"
>> > or with backticks:  rm -rf `find . -name '*.pyc'`
>> 
>> Beware of spaces in filenames!
> 
> Yeah, but it's pretty unlikely, though not impossible, to have a .pyc
> file, specifically, with spaces in the name; that module would be
> somewhat hard to use from Python in normal ways.

Right; the file name will not contain spaces, but directory names could
without problems. Anyway, it is not advisable to use such a pattern.
Alternatives have been pointed out.

Reinhold

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