Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3135 mails)

[Sylvester Lykkehus <zly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vince Oliver wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> How to easily remove some particular files from more than one 
> directory.  For example I have directories:
>
> $ ls -l
> total 12
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:36 DHbox1
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  7 08:30 DHbox10
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:36 DHbox2
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:36 DHbox3
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:36 DHbox4
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  7 08:31 DHbox5
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:37 DHbox6
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:37 DHbox7
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:37 DHbox8
> drwx------+ 2 ovince None     0 Mar  6 16:37 DHbox9
>
> from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that 
> finish wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others untouched
>
> thanks
> oliver
Hi Oliver,
find DHbox* -name *.dat | xargs rm
should do the trick.

Best regards
Sylvester
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