deleting files recursively, but not directories

tantan · 03-07-2007, 02:40 AM

Hi,
I'm dealing with this kind of problem.
I have a tree of many directories and subdirectories, and I wanto to make a script that delete all files existing in this tree, but not directories, so I can have my tree empty.
The problem is that if I use " rm -rf * " , the command deletes also directories, because with " -r * " it deletes also directories if empty, not only files.
Does anybody have a tip?

Thanks in advance

ygloo · 03-07-2007, 02:45 AM

hello
"find" can delete only files in a directory tree,
(better check result or can delete something important!):

Code:

find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

then:

Code:

find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm

tantan · 03-07-2007, 06:01 AM

Wonderful!!!
it was so simple...

Thanks a lot!