Tim Franzke wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help me ? I want to do the following with the linux command line
> ( I have had a look at man and --help but still could not figure it out)
>
> 1 - I want to get a complete recursive list of number of files, number of
> dirs and total byte size of a path.
Recursive list of all files in a path:
ls -R
Number of files in the list:
ls -lR | wc -l
Number of directories:
find . -type d | wc -l
Size of the path:
du .
> 2 - Want to delete all files of a particular name or extension in a
> recursive path e.g all *.rpm or all xyz*.rpm
rm -r *.rpm
> I have looked all over the internet but cannot find any info about these
> commands or more complex ones. They only tell you very basic and simple
> stuff.
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Steve Philp
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