[colug-432] help with a command

[Keith Larson]

that's what I thought, but no.
rm: cannot remove `*.PA/*': No such file or directory

Keith Larson
Franklin Computer Services - K12group
klarson at k12group.net
(614) 561-4887 (mobile)
 
 >>> Stephen Potter <spp at unixsa.net> 8/10/2014 2:25 PM >>>
> 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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