Comments on: Recursively delete certain files

By: virtualtrader

virtualtrader — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:51:50 +0000

Why does the following not work, recursively?

rm -vR folderToStartAt/*ext

cabbag — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:03:18 +0000

find . -type f -name *.bak -print0 | xargs -0 rm

qmchenry — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:16:36 +0000

Thanks for noticing this and sharing with us! I’ve corrected the error in the recipe.

Quinn

Vlada — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 01:14:11 +0000

at the end of the second command should be semicolon instead of double dot