Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete

[Larry Marshall]

flupke wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
> 

> them all, issue a :
>   find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
> and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.

Gee...and I thought I was out on a limb telling a newbie (for some
things, if you ask the question it says a lot about whether you should
know) about "rm -rf" (grin).

Cheers --- Larry