removing directories

[Matthew Seaman]

On 04/11/2011 17:41, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote:
> El 04/11/11 13:25, Graeme Dargie escribió:
>> Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes.
>>
>> I have a large number of directories  around 300 which all have sub
>> dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two
>> further sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an easy way to
>> remove all the pages and thumbnail dirs from the tree?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> G
>>
> I dont know how to make in one command....but to delete thumbnails
> directories
> 
> find . -type d -name thumbnails -exec rm -rf {} \;
> 
> You can do the same for the pages directories
> 
> To test what you will delete please run
> 
> find . -type d -name thumbnails -print
> 
> and see that it is correct

In one command:

find . -depth 3 -type d \( -name pages -o -name thumbnails \) \
   -exec rm -rf '{}' +

The '-depth 3' bit avoids deleting any pages or thumbnails directories
higher up the tree, assuming that any such exist.  Leave it out if that
isn't a concern.

Use -print as Rodrigo suggests to avoid foot-shooting scenarios...

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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