On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 09:12 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have run out of space in our user directory file. All users have been
> warned to delete or convert the thousands of bmp files to soemthing else
> or they will be deleted. So now I want to carry out my threat. I can list
> them all with
>
> ls -alR |grep bmp
>
> but how do I feed something like that to 'rm'
More fun with find
find . -name "*.bmp" -exec rm {} \;
Alternatively
ls -alR | grep bmp | xargs rm
would do the trick but I'd advocate using a stronger regular expression
as otherwise
buysimonnewibmpc.doc in the accounts directory goes, too.
Cheers, Seb.
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