deleting with wildcards over ssh ... how ?
Ensel Sharon
user at dhp.com
Wed Aug 30 15:06:52 UTC 2006
I want to delete some remote files with a wildcard, running 'rm' over ssh.
The obvious syntax doesn't work at all - it doesn't even make an ssh
connection - I think it is interpreting the wildcard locally:
# ssh user at host rm -rf /some/testdir/*
ssh: No match.
Then, these combinations of single and double quotes:
ssh user at host 'rm -rf /some/testdir/*'
ssh user at host rm -rf '/some/testdir/*'
ssh user at host 'rm -rf "/some/testdir/*"'
All connect over ssh, and produce no errors, but the remote files are
still there - nothing was deleted.
So what is the _right_ way to do this ?
Thanks.
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