> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:42:15 -0800
> From: "Primitive Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I want to remove all my .class files in all sub-directories
> starting from /dev/classes.
>
> classes $ rm -r *.class
> rm: cannot remove `*.class': No such file or directory
>
> There are no .class files in /dev/classes but there are certainly
> .class files in sub-directories of /dev/classes.
>
> what am I doing wrong?
Not understanding how wildcards work in Unix-like shells? The Cygwin
bash shell works like Unix, not like DOS.
See questions 2.3 and 2.6 in
<URL:http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part2/index.html>.
The summary is that you want to use:
find /dev/classes -name '*.class' -exec rm {} \;
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