selecting specific files

slack66 · 02-14-2004, 02:28 AM

hi! a couple of years i just write in this forum a question how do i command a single command to select a multiple files and then deleting it. someone answer to my given question and it work just great now i need it once more my problem i lost my note last year

i need it badly to select thousand garbage file like.... *.bak *.tmp etc. hope someone may help me again

thks in advance.

ex. rm *.bak then deleting all that have bak extension file.

ilikejam · 02-14-2004, 07:52 AM

Hi.

Try this:

$ rm -f *.tmp .*.tmp *~ .*~ *.BAK .*.BAK *.bak .*.bak '#'*'#'

That will remove most common backup types from your current directory.

If you need to delete all backup files in all folders below the current one:

$ find -name *.bak -print0 | xargs -0 rm

will remove all .bak files from the current directory and any directories in the current one.

Dave

P.S. I'm not responsible for data lost through using these commands.