[ale] Recursive script help

[John.Armsby at motorola.com (Armsby John-G16665)]

If you want a command, would not:

rm -Rf *.extension 

be adequate assuming you are in the correct directory when you run it?

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Hirsch [mailto:mdhirsch at mail.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:23 AM
To: Gary MacKay
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Recursive script help


Gary MacKay writes:
 > Is there a command that will delete all files, such as *.xyz or
 > whatever,  in the current directory and all subdirectories below it?
 > 
 > I can make a script with a "for" loop to get the current and one layer
 > down, but how do I keep going to _all_ subdirs of subdirs of...? Is
 > there a single command or is a script required?

find is your friend.  Something like this should work:

find . -name \*.xyz -exec rm \{\} \;

--Michael

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