Script for selected file deletion

[PVR]

I want to delete files with *.gz from /data directory and all it's sub directories

Can you help me with a script ?

Thanks in advance !

[David DeWitt_2]

Good morning,

I believe you can do this with one line.

find /data -name *.gz -exec rm {} \;

You could check before hand with...

find /data -name *.gz -exec ls {} \;

Hope this helps.

-dave

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Or (to avoid spawning excess processes):

find /data -type f -name *.gz |xargs rm


Pete

[Fred Ruffet]

Same as Pete, but just think to quote * char, to have it evaluated in each subdir :
find /data -type f -name "*.gz" | xargs rm

Regards,

Fred

[john korterman]

Hi,

I'd go for DeWitt's suggestion as I do not think that rm can read from std. in. Use a litte quoting in order not to expand files in the current directory, e.g.:
# find /data -name "*.gz" -exec rm {} \;
and you should of course first check by:
find /data -name "*.gz" -exec ls -l {} \;

regards,
John K.

[David DeWitt_2]

I just tested and the "xargs" will work on my system, but it causes problems if you are trying to be safe with a "rm -i".

-dave

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

find /data -type f -name "*.gz" -exec rm {} \;
or
find /data -type f -name "*.gz"|xargs rm

Please pay your attention on double quotes in the command.

HTH

[PVR]

Thanks to all !