Re: removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 4 12:30:00 2011 > From: Graeme Dargie > To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 16:25:26 +0000 > Subject: removing directories > > Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goe

Fwd: Re: removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Paul Macdonald
Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes. I have a large number of directories around 300 which all have sub dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two further sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an easy way to remove all the pages and thumb

Re: removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/11/2011 17:41, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > El 04/11/11 13:25, Graeme Dargie escribió: >> Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes. >> >> I have a large number of directories around 300 which all have sub >> dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two >> fu

Re: removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Graeme Dargie wrote: Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes. I have a large number of directories around 300 which all have sub dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two further sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an easy

Fwd: removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Ryan Coleman
Begin forwarded message: > From: Michael Sierchio > Subject: Re: removing directories > Date: November 4, 2011 12:35:05 PM CDT > To: Ryan Coleman > > man find > > you can search on name (or extension) or size, or... > > (assuming by pages you mean HTML or so

Re: removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
El 04/11/11 13:25, Graeme Dargie escribió: Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes. I have a large number of directories around 300 which all have sub dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two further sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an e

Re: removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Ryan Coleman
Graeme, I don't have the answer, but I wanted to tell you it's not a n00b question at all: The solution is a fairly complex (IMO) series of greps and awks. Ones that I don't have the knowledge to do - and I am definitely not a n00b. -- Ryan On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Graeme Dargie wrote: >

removing directories

2011-11-04 Thread Graeme Dargie
Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes. I have a large number of directories around 300 which all have sub dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two further sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an easy way to remove all the pages and thumbnai