On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:14, Bradley Caricofe wrote: > > 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. > > Bret and Sean, thanks very much! Within the .loki directory are about 20 > subdirectories with these .dso files. Will this command traverse all of > those directories deleting the files? Thanks again guys... >
yep in the absence of a -depth option it will recurse the entire tree. I always found man find to be hard to glean usable information from but info find does a pretty good job of explaining and gives some examples. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
