On Monday 10 January 2000 12:00, D-Man wrote: > cd / ; rm -fr *.exe > > ?? > > This command will remove all files ending in ".exe" from the entire > filesystem. Is there some sort of naming convention used for those > exe files? If so, come up with a regex that will match all (or at > least most) of those files without matching anything you want to > keep. Then use it in conjunction with the "-r" (recursive) option to > rm. > > -D Mmm. This is a reckless habit to get into, find etc.. much safer.
Consider the consequences of your solution should the user accidentally have a space after the "*" In your example.. goodbye OS. Anyone contemplating using rm -rf * in the root directory has not been using Unix systems for very long... Cliff > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:26:02PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > | Hi to all! > | > | I installed potato at home because I want to move my production > | system from OS/2 to Debian. After two month of playing around with > | potato, and with the great help of people at this list, I am almost > | ready to stat working with Debian. I copyied al my files from the > | hpfs partition of OS/2 (in another disk) to the Debian disk. I have > | a lot of FORTRAN exe files which will not work under potato because > | they were compiled in OS/2. I want to remove them, but they are > | spreaded in many directories and subdirectories. > | How can I remove all of them? I search in the rm documentation (man > | rm and info rm) but I didn't find anything. > | > | Thanks in advance for the help > | > | Marcelo
