[colug-432] help with a command

[Bill Schwanitz]

find /path/to/files -type f -name "*.PA" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

read what those commands do before you run it ;)


Bill Schwanitz

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein.

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