Try this:
find /path/to/music -name "*.m4a" -exec rm {} \;
Regards,
Tom
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
>
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