Chris Bannister <[email protected]> writes: > On 05/06/12 11:42, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' >> subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', >> e.g.: `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively. Is >> there a Unix command to do that right away? > > find /my/top/level/directory -name '*~' -delete > > will do that for you. > > Try: > > find /my/top/level/directory -name '*~' -print > > to see what it'll remove.
Fantastic. Thanks. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
