Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990820165753.11353.rocketmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: B20.1: Problem with recursive rm (rm -r) on Windows98 To: Stephane Bonenfant Cc: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Stephane Bonenfant wrote: > My problem is the following: > > I have many level of directories with .d files and I want to remove them > all. So I use the command "rm -rf *.d" which will only remove the file on > the current directory. I though that it will do all other directories since > I've use -r option. Is that because my directories are not name ending with > .d ? Any suggestions > I think the rm syntax requires that the directories recursed be in the argument list. Therefore, unless the directory ends in .d it won't be seen. To do what you want you need to create a foreach loop using find and rm. E.G.: foreach FILE in `find . -name *.d`; do rm -f $FILE; done The syntax may be incorrect but it's close. I can't check it right now. === Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com