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Hi, how to delete several files in a recursive way



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 =)
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I am assuming you want to find those files under /var/www/.  If that is
wrong, the substitute that for wherever you want to start.

find /var/www -name .htaccess -delete







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