Alec Wright wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:48 +0100, Mac wrote: >> I've got a mixture of .flac and .m4a files of the same music scattered >> through the multiple sub directories in ~/music. I want to delete all >> the .m4a files from which ever subdirectory they happen to be in, >> leaving the .flac files in their current directories. (It would be nice >> to delete any directories that have become empty because they only had >> .m4a files in them - but that would be a bonus!) >> >> I'd be grateful for advice about how to do this 'selective recursive >> delete' - I can't work out a terminal command with this effect. >> >> Sorry if this is dead obvious - I can't see how to do it. >> >> TIA >> >> Mac > Try: > rm -R *.mp4 *.m4a
Alec >>> Thanks for reply. I tried the form of command you suggest. It returns rm: cannot lstat `*.mp4': No such file or directory rm: cannot lstat `*.m4a': No such file or directory Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
