[LUNI] Re: Basic "find" question

[Fred Yankowski]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:35:57AM -0500, Stefmit wrote:
> Can't remember how this one works ... while:
> 
> $ find . -name Dir_name -type d -print0 |xargs -0 ls
> 
> will list all files and subdirs in the directory Dir_name, for all places 
> where a Dir_name is found under ".", would replacing 'ls' with 'rm -fR' lead 
> to removing all those files and subdirs, leaving the Dir_name intact, or 
> else?

That would wipe out every Dir_name directory too.

I think the following does what you want:

  find . -path '*/Dir_name/*' ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm
  find . -path '*/Dir_name/*'   -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir

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Fred Yankowski