Re: [luau] help with rm

2002-12-23 Thread Ray Strode
Assuming your Windows/VFAT partition is /dev/hda1, and is mounted on /mnt/hda1, as root, type: cd /mnt/hda1 find . -type f -name *.eml -exec rm -f {} \; That should remove all the files under a directory that ends with the .eml extension. Just a warning. As Vince said, it will

Re: [luau] help with rm

2002-12-23 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
change -exec to -ok, then you will be prompted before the comman rm is executed. Ray Strode wrote: Assuming your Windows/VFAT partition is /dev/hda1, and is mounted on /mnt/hda1, as root, type: cd /mnt/hda1 find . -type f -name *.eml -exec rm -f {} \; That should remove all the

[luau] help with rm

2002-12-22 Thread Alvin Murphy
Hi; again asking for help. I have or have had a virus (opaserv)on a win machine which was writing .eml files all over the place, including several shares on my Linux laptop. I cannot easily remove them. I have tried various variations of rm -R /*.eml and that gives error message cannot

Re: [luau] help with rm

2002-12-22 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:10:49PM -1000, Alvin Murphy wrote: I have tried various variations of rm -R /*.eml and that gives error message cannot lstat I cannot remove them from Konqueror because access is refused; when I check permissions, I note they belong to root. Did you try