[ILUG] rm help\guidance needed.

[Niall O Broin]

On 12 Feb 2012, at 15:27, FRank Murphy wrote:

> On 12/02/12 15:22, Niall O Broin wrote:
>> On 12 Feb 2012, at 15:00, FRank Murphy wrote:
>> 
>>> http://serverfault.com/questions/195005/linux-svn-how-to-remove-all-versioned-files-but-keep-directory-structure-ign
>>> 
>>> Similar to above link.
>>> 
>>> Want to delete the files only in _local (plain text files)
>>> keeping all others and dirs above and below _local.
>>> 
>>> find dir/ -path '/nfs/yum/x86_64/16/_local' -prune -o -type f -exec rm {} +
>> 
>> You're really going to have to restate your requirement more lucidly. What you described (or my understanding thereof) isn't much like what you linked above. Do you want to remove all files under a particular directory e.g. /nfs/yum/x86_64/16/_local in which case
>> 
>> find /nfs/yum/x86_64/16/_local -type f -exec rm {} \;
>> 
>> or variants involving xargs or $() will do the trick. Or do you want something else entirely? You mentioned 'plain text files' - do you want to only delete a particular class of file?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Niall
>> 
> 
> Yes that it, plain text files accumulated from lost of trial and error testing. With plenty of the error.

If that's the case, you're going to have to provide find with some means of distinguishing between the files you want, and files you don't want. Either by name, or by size, or by when modified, or owner, or any of the other things that find can query about a file - man find for lots of details.


Niall