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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:06:09 +0200
From:      Matteo Pillon <matteo.pillon@gmail.com>
To:        Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: deleting with wildcards over ssh ... how ?
Message-ID:  <20060830160609.GA16094@neptune.octopus>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0608301059480.31959-100000@shell.dhp.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0608301059480.31959-100000@shell.dhp.com>

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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:06:39AM -0400, Ensel Sharon wrote:
> I want to delete some remote files with a wildcard, running 'rm' over ssh.
> [...]
> So what is the _right_ way to do this ?

ssh user@host 'sh -c "rm -rf "/some/testdir/*"'

As * has to be expanded before is sent to rm.

Bye.

-- 
 * Pillon Matteo



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