It should be simple, but how? (Having a bad brain day...lol)

The issue is, my wife's XP machine got overloaded by a virus, and she transferred ALOT of her files to my linux server to save as much as possible. ALL the *.exe files, however, are infected.

I need to delete all the *.exe files in there, but I REALLY don't want to go into each and every directory and The '-v' is so I can see what is being removed.

Trying '-r' don't do diddly

Ideas? Script? Or a simple command line switch I'm forgetting about?

The files are all in 'her' directory in the server (NOT THAT STUPID!!). But in the first level are 14 folders, and in each of those is about 7-10 folders, and inside those...(You get the picture)

how about rm -rf

I need something that will go into the individual folders, and 'rm *.exe'

-rf does not

ok sorry.


find <path/to/dir> -name "*.exe" |xargs rm

find -name "*.exe" -exec "rm" "-v" "{}" ";"

Erm...

Would that only find/delete the files inside the folder I'm in? Because my server houses alot of 'good' *.exe files too, and need to keep those

if you mean my version, yes.
you can always cd to the folder you want to start from and

find . -name "*.exe" |xargs rm

or

find . -name "*.exe" -exec rm {} \;

(note the period)

you can truncate the command to
find . -name "*.exe"

first, you will see what you will get then :-)

That did it...Than