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Subject: Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:57:39 -0400, John Almberg wrote:
JA> This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
JA> 
JA> I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think  
JA> something like the following should work, but I must have something  
JA> wrong, because it doesn't:
JA> 
JA> find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;

find . -type f -name '*.tar' -delete

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 Anton Yuzhaninov