On Thursday 14 March 2002 20:01, andy wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I know this is not a unix board, but maybe someone had to cope with the
> same problem.
>
> I have a couple of wired filenames matching all this pattern .jpeg:
>
> How can I delete  all files matching this pattern recursive in all
> directories?
> I tryed : rm -r test *.jpeg:*
>
> But this only deletes the files in the test dir not in the test/subdir


try:

find /path/to/dir -iname "*.jpeg" -exec ls -al {} \;


If the files listed are the ones you want to delete then


find /path/to/dir -iname "*.jpeg" -exec rm {} \;



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