Deleting specific files from many sub folders

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

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