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Old October 21st, 2005, 02:20 PM
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deleting files
hi,
i need your help again..
i have a directory named as 'projects' under root directory.
now, i want to remove *.o (all files with extension.o) in the "projects" directory and in its subdirectories..
for example
/projects/hw1/myhw.o
/projects/hw2/exercise/56.o
...
don't want to remove them one by one..

which command line should i write to remove *.o when working on the root directory..
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First if you really mean this as Unix help you need to learn to lean your slashes to the right, not left - this isn't Windows.

Next, you'll want to do a "man find" for all possible options but the way I do it would be:

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find . -name '*.o' -exec rm -f {} \;


though there are other ways.
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Old October 21st, 2005, 02:56 PM
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First if you really mean this as Unix help you need to learn to lean your slashes to the right, not left - this isn't Windows.

Next, you'll want to do a "man find" for all possible options but the way I do it would be:

Code:
find . -name '*.o' -exec rm -f {} \;


though there are other ways.


thanks for your help..
sorry about the slashes.. i have corrected them..
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Or you could do rm -R *.o
Be warned thoug, the -R option is dangerous if misused. If you do rm -Rf *.* by mistake, you delete everything!
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