Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:08:44 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Rodrigo Gonzalez <rjgonzale@estrads.com.ar> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> Subject: Re: removing directories Message-ID: <4EB42A2C.2030704@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4EB423CD.6040702@estrads.com.ar> References: <0EE458C34045A44DBC2CA2DC5CEB42B5239647FE05@mercury.universe.galaxy.lcl> <4EB423CD.6040702@estrads.com.ar>
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On 04/11/2011 17:41, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote:
> El 04/11/11 13:25, Graeme Dargie escribi=F3:
>> Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> G
>>
> I dont know how to make in one command....but to delete thumbnails
> directories
>=20
> find . -type d -name thumbnails -exec rm -rf {} \;
>=20
> You can do the same for the pages directories
>=20
> To test what you will delete please run
>=20
> find . -type d -name thumbnails -print
>=20
> and see that it is correct
In one command:
find . -depth 3 -type d \( -name pages -o -name thumbnails \) \
-exec rm -rf '{}' +
The '-depth 3' bit avoids deleting any pages or thumbnails directories
higher up the tree, assuming that any such exist. Leave it out if that
isn't a concern.
Use -print as Rodrigo suggests to avoid foot-shooting scenarios...
Cheers,
Matthew
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