Re: [orca-list] (Slightly) O.T.: removing backup files.

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

Rm -r will recurse, but it will take its arguments and remove each file or 
directory specified.  Ie, typing "rm -r *bak" would cause ths ehll to 
expand *bak, and rm would remove all files and directories in the current 
directory with names ending in "bak".  It would not descend into other 
directories and only remove files with names having that ending.  You'd 
need to use find if you want to do this and recurse to an arbitrary depth.

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.  I have always used the -r option to rm to tell it to recurse subdirs.
> Just wondering if I'm missing something?  Help from typing rm --help agrees with me.
>
>          Kenny
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