Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:06:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: deleting with wildcards over ssh ... how ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0608301059480.31959-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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I want to delete some remote files with a wildcard, running 'rm' over ssh. The obvious syntax doesn't work at all - it doesn't even make an ssh connection - I think it is interpreting the wildcard locally: # ssh user@host rm -rf /some/testdir/* ssh: No match. Then, these combinations of single and double quotes: ssh user@host 'rm -rf /some/testdir/*' ssh user@host rm -rf '/some/testdir/*' ssh user@host 'rm -rf "/some/testdir/*"' All connect over ssh, and produce no errors, but the remote files are still there - nothing was deleted. So what is the _right_ way to do this ? Thanks.
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