You can do something like this:
find . -name "*.class" -exec rm {} \;
This will find all the class files (including the sub-directories) and
remove them.
Nishi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Warnock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 2:17 PM
> To: java-linux
> Subject: Delete all class files
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Jikes 0.37 and whilst I trust it's -depends option I like to
> delete all class files prior to building a release. I am also very new
> to Linux and cannot see how to delete *.class files from a directory
> tree. Under windows NT I could use "del *.class /s" but "rm -r *.class"
> does not work.
>
> I thought I should be able to connect "find . -name *.class" to "rm"
> somehow using redirection or pipes but cannot get it to work.
>
> Any ideas on how I should do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
