[colug-432] help with a command

[Chris Embree]

This should work:  find /top/dir/to/search/ -type f -name "*.PA" -delete


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Potter <spp at unixsa.net> wrote:

>  How about "rm *.PA/*"
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> -spp
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> On 8/10/2014 1:53 PM, Keith Larson wrote:
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>  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
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> 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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