looking for a script

[Kadafi]

im looking for a script that will search a directory and its sub-directories to find files within them and to delete those files. any ideas how id go about it?

 

[rick827]

Check the find man page, lets you search a folder and all its sub-directories for files based on a multitude of parameters such as name, size, modified date etc and then run a command against these files such as rm -f

find . -name foo -exec rm -f {} \;

Would find all files named foo in the current directory and all subdirectories and then remove them without prompting

 

[Kadafi]

thanks fella, worked like a charm!

 

[UltimateBadger]

find /mydir -name anyfile | xargs rm

...is better for a larger number of files - although it is more cpu intensive

 

[Mr. Brightside]

find has a built in delete action, which is the simplest way of doing it and won't stumble with a large number of files:

find . -type f -name 'foo' -delete