On Tuesday 08 March 2005 05:16 pm, Eric Jensen wrote: > Working with a new backup scheme and trying to think of a good way to > delete all sub folders of a directory, but not any files in the root of > the directory. For example, I have a directory structure like: > /2005/03/08. Folder '03' has a folder for every single day with the > daily backups. At the end of the month I am moving the last day's > backups to the root of the month's folder (03) and then want to clear > out all the daily folders. I could just copy them to a temporary > folder, do the traditional rm -rf and move the files back. But curious > to know if there is a handier way to do this, since I'm sure it will > come up again.
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