Tech Tip of the Day: Quick file deletion

Posted by John Minnihan - 18/09/06 at 10:09:52 am

Here’s another quick tip.  If you have a large directory tree (hundreds or thousands of nested levels), and you need to find and delete a set of files from the tree, consider this one-line approach:

cd [target-dir-top-level];for i in `find . -name \*tar.gz`; do rm -f $i; done

Replace my pattern ‘tar.gz’ with one that matches the files you wish to delete.

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  • John Minnihan
    And here's another one-liner:

    #find . -name *.tar.gz -exec rm {} \;
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