[colug-432] help with a command

Keith Larson klarson at k12group.net
Sun Aug 10 13:53:29 EDT 2014


I am searching for a way to empty the contents of a bunch of folders without removing the folders themselves AND leave other files at the currect directory level alone.  
 
I have a bunch of print queue folders.
 
du -shc *.PA 
 
shows these results
 
199M 4A81C53F.PA
941K 4A81D556.PA
0 4A81D56D.PA
192K 4A81D582.PA
632K 4A81D598.PA
0 4A81D5AD.PA
254M 4A81D5C0.PA
0 4A81DF1B.PA
0 4A81DF45.PA
 
All folders have a .PA extension so they are easily identified.
 
You can see that some are empty and some have files (print jobs) in them.  I want to delete all files from WITHIN these folders and nothing else.
 
Can someone help with a single command that will do this?
 
 
 
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