[colug-432] help with a command

[Rick Hornsby]

On Aug 10, 2014, at 12:53, Keith Larson <klarson at k12group.net> 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. 
>  

find . -name ‘*.PA’ -type f -mindepth 2


add “-delete” to the end to actually make it remove the files.


> 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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