find and remove ?

[Jack L. Stone]

At 08:05 PM 5/15/2011 +0200, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
>2011-05-15 19:50, Rolf Nielsen skrev:
>> 2011-05-15 19:41, Jack L. Stone skrev:
>>> At 12:19 PM 5/15/2011 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>>> The comamnd:
>>>>> #find /path/to/start/deleting -type d -name _vti_\*
>>>>> worked fine to give the listing of what to delete, but when just
>>>>> adding the
>>>>> "-delete" at the end didn't delete, just ran the listing again.
>>>>
>>>> I forgot that adding the -type d won't let it delete non-empty
>>>> directories. Try running it like:
>>>> find /path/to/start/deleting -name _vti_\* -delete
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (^_^)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nope. Thate didn't delete either.
>>>
>>> Jack
>>>
>>> (^_^)
>>> Happy trails,
>>> Jack L. Stone
>>>
>>> System Admin
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>>
>> find /path/to/start/deleting -name _vti_\* -exec rm -Rd {} \;
>
>Pardon my answering my own post, but after reading the find manpage, I 
>think perhaps
>
>find -d /path/to/start/deleting -type d -name _vti_\* -exec rm -Rd {} \;
>
>would be better. The -d option makes find visit the contents of a 
>directory before the directory itself. The one without the -d option
>deletes the topmost directory it finds and then tries to traverse 
>downwards, which of course causes a warning. It still works though.
>

Thanks for the follow-up. I'll try it too.

Jack

(^_^)
Happy trails,
Jack L. Stone

System Admin
Sage-american