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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm misunderstanding your question, or
everyone else is.<br>
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Are the files named *.PA or are the directories named *.PA?<br>
<br>
What are the names of the files within the directories? And, is
the print spooler still running?<br>
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Assuming:<br>
the directories are *.PA<br>
the files inside are regular files (not hidden files)<br>
the print spooler isn't running (new jobs aren't getting
created and deleted)<br>
you are running as root (or someone else with the appropriate
permissions)<br>
<br>
The command I gave you will delete only the files and not the
print queue directories. Although, honestly, I'm not sure why you
want to keep the queue directories. The directories should be
deleted when the job is completed anyway.<br>
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Oh, make sure you are running /bin/rm and you don't have some
weirdo alias horking things up.<br>
<br>
-spp<br>
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On 8/10/2014 2:35 PM, Keith Larson wrote:<br>
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<div>that's what I thought, but no.</div>
<div>rm: cannot remove `*.PA/*': No such file or directory<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">How about "rm *.PA/*"<br>
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-spp<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>
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<div>I have a bunch of print queue folders.</div>
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<div>du -shc *.PA </div>
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<div>shows these results</div>
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<div><!--StartFragment-->199M 4A81C53F.PA<br>
941K 4A81D556.PA<br>
0 4A81D56D.PA<br>
192K 4A81D582.PA<br>
632K 4A81D598.PA<br>
0 4A81D5AD.PA<br>
254M 4A81D5C0.PA<br>
0 4A81DF1B.PA<br>
0 4A81DF45.PA</div>
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<div>All folders have a .PA extension so they are
easily identified.</div>
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<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>
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<div>Can someone help with a single command that will
do this?</div>
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