From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject:	Re: Remove contents of directories recursively
Date:	8 Oct 1999 12:00:42 GMT
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Ya'qub (rg3 AT ic DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: Greetings,
:     I would like to clean up a directory from all files with, let's say,
: extension .obj while preserving the directory structure. I thought that
: using rm -r *.obj at the top level directory would do the job.
: Unfortunately, it only deletes the *.obj files that are in the the top level
: directory but not those found in sub-directories further down. Can anyone
: tell me how to do this (if possible)?

Try "find . -iname '*.obj' -exeec rm {} \;". Perhaps the curly braces
must be backslashed too.

: Off topic - I think some time ago in the eternal debates of *nix vs Windoze,
: someone mentioned something about Hotmail servers running Linux. Does anyone
: remember the web link that was given? Thanks

I don't know the link, but I thought they used to use FreeBSD and now
(after Microsnoft took over) Solaris.


Shostakovich, String Quartet 7,

							MartinS

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