On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to
> remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using:
> rm -r TRANS.TBL
> If I do this in a directory that has a TRANS.TBL it, and only it, gets
> removed. If I do this in an upper directory without a TRANS.TBL file, I
> get the error "no such file or directory"
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in rm?
>
> TIA,
>
> Dwarf
Dale,
I didn't think that was how the recursive remove was supposed to work. My
understanding is that it is supposed to get everything (files,
directories) under and including the specified file. That way,
rm -R bad.dir
would delete not only bad.dir, but if it is a directory, it would also get
all of the contents of bad.dir. From your description, I think you want
to do something like this:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
Hope this helps.
- Don
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