cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT 

Hello List,

to clean some directories of mine, I use

rm -rf *

but files named as `.log' are not removed.

Is there a better way to do so ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome
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Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Christopher Zimmermann 
 Hello List,
 
 to clean some directories of mine, I use
 
 rm -rf *
 
 but files named as `.log' are not removed.
 
 Is there a better way to do so ?
 
 Thanks in advance,
 Jerome


Your problem is that the shell doesn't expand the '*' to hidden files.
You could do '.*', but that would match '..' and '.' too. Your could rm
-rf the whole directory and then mkdir it again.

Otherwise
 find . -depth -mindepth 1 -exec rm '{}' \;

could do the job.

Christopher


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Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi 
Jerome BENOIT wrote:

 Hello List,
 
 to clean some directories of mine, I use
 
 rm -rf *
 
 but files named as `.log' are not removed.
 
 Is there a better way to do so ?

Go to the previous directory and then remove the directory using rm -rf.
This will remove other hidden files along with the .log files.


I tend to resist the use of * when using rm -rf. I usually work with a lot
of terminals open (inside konsole). So the probability of being in the
wrong directory and removing its contents is large if I use '*' with
rm -rf. But when the directory name is explicitly specified, the
probability of removing the wrong directory is small. YMMV.

hth
raju
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Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Shuler 

On 02/27/2008 09:39 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

to clean some directories of mine, I use

rm -rf *

but files named as `.log' are not removed.


Dot files are not expanded by * - to remove just the .log files, for 
example:


find ./ -type f -name .log -exec rm -rf {} \;

To remove everything in $PWD, similar to rm -rf:

find ./ -exec rm -rf {} \;

These are just quick examples - find has many powerful options to make 
the above much safer - be careful..  ;)


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