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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>
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Subject: Re: deleting with wildcards over ssh ... how ?
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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.

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 * Pillon Matteo