Remove ERB files after upgrading to haml

Posted by Wes in Ruby on Rails

Jun
10

I converted an application to haml and wanted to get rid of my previous ERb templates.

find ./app/views -name "*.html.erb" -print0 | xargs -0 rm

find() ./app/views -name "*.html.erb" returns a list of all ERb view templates.
-print0 formats the output specially.
xargs is a program that takes a list and runs a command for each item in that list.
-0 means the input format is specially formatted by -print0
rm is the command we want to run for each found file

So, each found file will get deleted. Bask in your newfound haml-ness.