Appreciate the offer, but that is a bit of work and perhaps I'll take
a stab at it. Its not to difficult to do via the Finder, but was just
rying to save myself some time. I think that is insane that rm
behaves this way, it makes no sense to not have the ability to do
this. I of course actually could use Terminal, change to each of the
directories, and issue the same command which will accomplish the
same task. So, much for being efficient. grin
Scott
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On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
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.
