Hi, how to delete several files in a recursive way

Cole Tuininga colet-KCgK2vT7wad/90uGnh1m2w at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 1 01:19:09 EST 2010


Franco castro wrote:
> Hi, I need to delete all .htaccess in all folders, but we are talking about
> houndreds of folders, I need to figuer out how to "find and destroy" delete
> all those files, I'm not very good with bin bash scripting, so maybe any of
> yours know how to do it, tnks =)

How about something along the lines of:

find /path/to/base/dir -name .htaccess -exec rm -i {} \;

If you're brave, you can change the -i to -f to make it not ask you
about each and every file, but that sounds dangerous to me...

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