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Date: 20 Mar 2001 13:24:09 -0500
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From: Jonathan Kamens <jik@curl.com>
To: efficacy@my-deja.com
CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
In-reply-to: <200103201742.JAA00506@mail19.bigmailbox.com>
	(efficacy@my-deja.com)
Subject: Re: rm -r not working
References:  <200103201742.JAA00506@mail19.bigmailbox.com>

>  Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:42:15 -0800
>  From: "Primitive Guy" <efficacy@my-deja.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 {} \;

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