[colug-432] help with a command

Stephen Potter spp at unixsa.net
Sun Aug 10 14:25:13 EDT 2014


How about "rm *.PA/*"

-spp


On 8/10/2014 1:53 PM, Keith Larson wrote:
> 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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