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Date:      Fri, 4 Nov 2011 12:45:24 -0500
From:      Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Fwd: removing directories
Message-ID:  <7ABED5D1-DD21-4399-88AF-7E824091ACCA@d3photography.com>
References:  <CAHu1Y73GdfF20JqYbTN9hLXjUYon2=YgMdq8nCoEQw4yGRYEpg@mail.gmail.com>

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> From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
> Subject: Re: removing directories
> Date: November 4, 2011 12:35:05 PM CDT
> To: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
>=20
> man find
>=20
> you can search on name (or extension) or size, or...
>=20
> (assuming by pages you mean HTML or some such, and by thumbnails you
> mean small images.
>=20
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Ryan Coleman =
<editor@d3photography.com> wrote:
>> Graeme,
>>=20
>> I don't have the answer, but I wanted to tell you it's not a n00b =
question at all: The solution is a fairly complex (IMO) series of greps =
and awks. Ones that I don't have the knowledge to do - and I am =
definitely not a n00b.
>>=20
>> --
>> Ryan
>>=20
>> On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Graeme Dargie wrote:
>>=20
>>> Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes.
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>>> I have a large number of directories  around 300 which all have sub =
dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two further =
sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an easy way to remove all =
the pages and thumbnail dirs from the tree?
>>>=20
>>> Regards
>>>=20
>>> G
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