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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: B20.1: Problem with recursive rm (rm -r) on Windows98
To:	Stephane Bonenfant <sbonenfant AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc:	cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- Stephane Bonenfant <sbonenfant AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> My problem is the following:
> 
> I have many level of directories with .d files and I want to remove them 
> all. So I use the command "rm -rf *.d" which will only remove the file on 
> the current directory. I though that it will do all other directories since 
> I've use -r option. Is that because my directories are not name ending with 
> .d ? Any suggestions
> 

I think the rm syntax requires that the directories recursed be in the argument
list.  Therefore, unless the directory ends in .d it won't be seen.  To do what
you want you need to create a foreach loop using find and rm.

E.G.:
foreach FILE in `find . -name *.d`; do rm -f $FILE; done

The syntax may be incorrect but it's close.  I can't check it right now.
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

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