With zsh it is very simple, as that shell uses recursive globbing:
#!/bin/zsh
/bin/rm -rf **/coot-backup
You can also use the unix "find" command to do this kind of thing (or
mdfind on OS X, which is much faster, or various version of locate).
William G. Scott
Contact info:
http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/
On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Simon Kolstoe wrote:
Dear Cootbb,
As I am a crystallographer and not a programmer, could anyone
suggest a bash script that will go through my hard drive deleting
all the pesky "coot-backup" directories with their horribly long
file names that zipping software cannot cope with? Also, in a future
version of coot, would it be possible to change the names of the
coot-backup files to something simpler e.g. just date and time (for
instance something like 240409-1650.pdb)?
Thanks,
Simon
