[Novalug] rm question
William Sutton
william@trilug.org
Thu Oct 10 11:58:04 EDT 2013
that might be too destructive
find . -type f -iname .ext1 -print 0 |xargs -0 rm
might be better
William Sutton
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, William Sutton wrote:
> have you tried
>
> find . -type d -maxdepth 3 -print 0 |xargs -0 rm -rf
>
> or something similar?
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Roy Wilson wrote:
>
>>
>> Dumb question...
>>
>> I've tried every pattern of swapping switches, directories, etc and I
>> can't get rm to do what I want.
>>
>> I've got a 2tb drive with something on the order of 17,000 directories on
>> it.
>>
>> Most of those directories have several files with the same data in
>> different formats.
>>
>> I want to delete some of those formats.
>>
>> rm -r *.ext1 *.ext2 etc works - but only in the directory I'm physically
>> in - it doesn't recurse all the subdirectories.
>>
>> I KNOW this can be done. Someone please tell me the (probably obvious)
>> correct command syntax is to get it to do what I want - please?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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