It's scary how powerful Linux is! ------------------------ Keith Smith If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14 --- On Mon, 7/26/10, Bryan O'Neal wrote: From: Bryan O'Neal Subject: Re: Deleting specific files from many sub folders To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 8:30 PM Thanks :) On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:28 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > >> I have a bunch of .au files I want to get rid but I don't want to hunt >> them down in every darn sub directory. Suggestions? > > Move into the top directory of that set > >        find . -name "*.au" > manifest.txt > > Scan manifest.txt with your favorite editor and look for stuff you wish to > retain -- mv them into new name suffixes > > Repeat the first step and make sure are happy for all listed there to go > away > > Run one more time then like this: > >        find . -name "*.au" -a -exec rm {} \; > > All done > > -- Russ herrold > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss