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Re:A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command by Hamuko on Sunday February 09, 2020 @04:14AM (#22281195)
I do for .pyc files.

  find . -name "*.pyc" -delete
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Re:A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command by JosefAssad on Sunday February 09, 2020 @05:52AM (#22281493)
Is there a reason you prefer that rather than having something like

  *.py[cod]
in your .gitignore?
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Re:A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command by Hamuko on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:29AM (#22282244)
Yeah, the reason is that the Python interpreter doesn't give a shit about .gitignore.
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