Gordon Ross wrote: >>>> On 07 March 2007 at 10:49, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Sylvester Lykkehus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Vince Oliver wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> >>> How to easily remove some particular files from more than one >>> directory. For example I have directories: >>> >>> $ ls -l >>> total 12 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox3 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox4 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:31 DHbox5 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox6 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox7 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox8 >>> drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox9 >>> >>> from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that >>> finish wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others > untouched >>> thanks >>> oliver >> Hi Oliver, >> find DHbox* -name *.dat | xargs rm >> should do the trick. > > Don't you need quotes around the *.dat to stop the shell expanding it > ? That or a '\' in front.
$ find DHbox* -name "*.dat" -o -name "*.pro" -exec rm -f {} \;
would do. Omit the final "-exec..." to first check that it only catches
those files you want to get rid of.
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
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