thanks for reply. trick works :)
May I ask you for one more trick? How to remove ALL files from
directories EXCEPT '*.pro'?
Many thanks Sylvester
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
Vince Oliver wrote:
Hi All,
How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory.
For example I have directories:
$ ls -l
total 12
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox3
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox4
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:31 DHbox5
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox6
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox7
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox8
drwx------+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox9
from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that finish
wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others untouched
thanks
oliver
Hi Oliver,
find DHbox* -name *.dat | xargs rm
should do the trick.
Best regards
Sylvester
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