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Date: | 20 Mar 2001 13:24:09 -0500 |
Message-ID: | <20010320182409.31781.qmail@lizard.curl.com> |
From: | Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com> |
To: | efficacy AT my-deja DOT com |
CC: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
In-reply-to: | <200103201742.JAA00506@mail19.bigmailbox.com> |
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Subject: | Re: rm -r not working |
References: | <200103201742 DOT JAA00506 AT mail19 DOT bigmailbox DOT com> |
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:42:15 -0800 > From: "Primitive Guy" <efficacy AT my-deja DOT com> > > I want to remove all my .class files in all sub-directories > starting from /dev/classes. > > classes $ rm -r *.class > rm: cannot remove `*.class': No such file or directory > > There are no .class files in /dev/classes but there are certainly > .class files in sub-directories of /dev/classes. > > what am I doing wrong? Not understanding how wildcards work in Unix-like shells? The Cygwin bash shell works like Unix, not like DOS. See questions 2.3 and 2.6 in <URL:http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part2/index.html>. The summary is that you want to use: find /dev/classes -name '*.class' -exec rm {} \; -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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