On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 17:04, Bradley Caricofe wrote: > I have a Tribes 2 server running on my RH 7.2 system and I have a simple > startup script that brings the game server up. The game creates a hidden > .loki folder in my users home directory which contains all of the game > settings. Within this folder are hundreds of .dso files that are compiled > on game startup. When I make changes to the games configs all of these .dso > files have to be deleted and recompiled by the game for my changes to take > effect. > > Is there a simple one or two line series of commands I can use in my startup > script to traverse my .loki directory and all subdirectories to locate and > delete these files? I'm a bit noobish and all I know to do is a bunch of cd > and rm commands to do this. I know it can be done with a creative one > liner... Anyone get my drift? > > thanks, > Brad untested but should come close:
find ~/.loki -name '*.dso'|xargs rm Assumption: file is run under the user's id otherwise the ~ will not substitute correctly. use has perms to delete files HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list