*- On 3 Oct, Chadi wrote about "on selective multi file delete"
> hello everyone ...
>
> i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of
> subdirectories using wget ...
> is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget
> scatered all throughout ???
>
> TIA,
>
> Chad
>
>
find <dir> -name .listing -print | xargs -i rm {}
Test it first with
find <dir> -name .listing -print | xargs -i ls {}
where <dir> is the parent directory of all the downloaded files.
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Brian
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