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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 04:25:45 +1000
From: Fergus Henderson <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: Stephane Bonenfant <sbonenfant AT hotmail DOT com>,
        cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: B20.1: Problem with recursive rm (rm -r) on Windows98
Message-ID: <19990824042544.A31357@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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In-Reply-To: <19990820165753.11353.rocketmail@web112.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:57:53AM -0700

On 20-Aug-1999, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> --- 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

That command will fail if there are too many files ending in `.d',
due to fixed limits on the length of a command line.

A more robust (and more concise) alternative is to use

	find . -name *.d | xargs rm -f

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