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Re: Recursively delete certain files

User — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:39:29 -0000

Jim- prepend the space with a backslash. Example:
/home/user/My\ Folder\ With\ Spaces/file.txt

James Power — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:30:32 -0000

How can I make this work if I have directories/files with spaces in the name?

daffodil — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:30:22 -0000

if i have file list say FILE_LIST="a.txt b.txt c.txt" pls tell me how to delete this with one command. i.e not using any loops.

gvanto — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:51:50 -0000

Why does the following not work, recursively?

rm -vR folderToStartAt/*ext

cabbag — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:03:18 -0000

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

qmchenry — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:16:36 -0000

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

Quinn

Vlada — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:14:11 -0000

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