[NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse

[Paul Drew]

I would try a find and then run an xargs and rm the results.

find . -name "*.zip" | xargs rm {}

Its been a while since I had to use it so my syntax may be a little off. I 
hope that helps some.


>From: Bobby Wrenn <bobby at wrennest.com>
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>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse
>Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 08:38:38 -0500
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>rm man page says -r option will make rm recurse through directories. It 
>doesn't.
>
>I'm trying to remove *.zip from all sub-directories below the current. If 
>rm won't do it, what will?
>
>TIA
>Bobby
>
>
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