Running a command across several directories

Poetics · 05-15-2005, 06:49 AM

Decided this was deffinately a newbie question

I'm trying to remove some particular files from about 4 different directories, but they all start with the same string. Is it possible for me to be in their parent directory and run just one command to delete the files out of all subdirectories?

Meaning instead of "cd /Dir1 ; rm FileX1* ; cd ../Dir2 ; rm FileX1*" et cetera. I happen to do this several times a day for a variety of file names and I'd like to speed up the process.

TIA.
-- Poetics

siyeclover · 05-15-2005, 07:16 AM

cd their parent directory and try this:
find ./ -name "FileX1*" -exec rm -f {} \;

siyeclover

Poetics · 05-15-2005, 07:26 AM

Thanks a lot! I'll try that out next time I do some cleanup (shouldn't be too long here)