Scott.
For some odd reason, there appears to be no option with the rm
command to delete all files in recursive directories. Kind of odd
that, since both linux and bsd do have this option. However, if you
want to remove a whole set of directories, and not just selected
files, you can always move the folder to the ~/.trash folder, then do
the empty trash command to eliminate them.
If you're looking at eliminating selected files though, I can't help
with that (yet)
However, I did write a unix script some years ago that traversed an
entire directory tree searching for particular filenames. It used
the find command, and ran on AIX who's find command does not on it's
own search directory trees. I could try reconstructing the script
only make it use rm instead of find. If I can ever get my old linux
drives operational again, I'd have a copy of the script, since I
always backed up everything on those drives. But it shouldn't be too
difficult to rewrite it. Let me know if you're interested, and I'll
tackle it as time permits.
- Re: using rm in Terminal Travis Siegel
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