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minm 10-11-2004 07:22 PM

deleting all *.m3u files in a directory+subdir?
 
how can it be done?

TroelsSmit 10-11-2004 07:26 PM

try something like:

rm -rf *.m3u

when in the directory.

minm 10-11-2004 07:34 PM

thanks :)

minm 10-12-2004 09:32 AM

hmm, doesn't seem to work, well, in the subdirectories at least.. i odn't want to go through each directory deleting it :(

fsbooks 10-12-2004 09:49 AM

This will do it:
find . -name "*.m3u" -exec rm {} \;

You may want to do it with an ls (find . -name "*.m3u" -exec ls {} \;) first, just to see that it is listing the appropriate files.

minm 10-12-2004 03:31 PM

it works

thanks :)


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