<div dir="ltr">Not according the the test case I just ran. <div><br></div><div> mkdir test<br></div><div>for x in {a..z}; do mkdir test/$x; for z in {a..w}; do touch test/${x}/${z}.PA; touch test/${x}/${z}.keep; done; done<br>
</div><div>touch keep.PA</div><div>find test/ -type f -name "*.PA" -delete<br></div><div><div> ls *.PA</div><div>keep.PA</div></div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to verify the contents before and after. Works for me.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Rick Hornsby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class=""><br><div><div>On Aug 10, 2014, at 13:34, Chris Embree <<a href="mailto:cembree@ez-as.net" target="_blank">cembree@ez-as.net</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">This should work: find /top/dir/to/search/ -type f -name "*.PA" -delete</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>That will delete everything at the current directory as well.</div>
<div><div class="h5"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Potter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spp@unixsa.net" target="_blank">spp@unixsa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>How about "rm *.PA/*"<br>
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-spp<div><div><br>
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On 8/10/2014 1:53 PM, Keith Larson wrote:<br>
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<div>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. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I have a bunch of print queue folders.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>du -shc *.PA </div>
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<div>shows these results</div>
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<div>199M <a href="http://4a81c53f.pa/" target="_blank">4A81C53F.PA</a><br>
941K <a href="http://4a81d556.pa/" target="_blank">4A81D556.PA</a><br>
0 <a href="http://4a81d56d.pa/" target="_blank">4A81D56D.PA</a><br>
192K <a href="http://4a81d582.pa/" target="_blank">4A81D582.PA</a><br>
632K <a href="http://4a81d598.pa/" target="_blank">4A81D598.PA</a><br>
0 <a href="http://4a81d5ad.pa/" target="_blank">4A81D5AD.PA</a><br>
254M <a href="http://4a81d5c0.pa/" target="_blank">4A81D5C0.PA</a><br>
0 <a href="http://4a81df1b.pa/" target="_blank">4A81DF1B.PA</a><br>
0 <a href="http://4a81df45.pa/" target="_blank">4A81DF45.PA</a></div>
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<div>All folders have a .PA extension so they are easily
identified.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Can someone help with a single command that will do this?</div>
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