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Re: [LUG] very stupid data delition and recovery

 

On 25/08/10 13:47, Simon Robert wrote:

My command line skills are minimal. If I am in a directory called
"recover" with 3000 sub directories what command can I use to
a delete all files callled *.xml
b delete empty sub directories

I'd be tempted to:

find . -name \*.xml -print | xargs rm
find . -type d -print | xargs rmdir

I think.

James

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