removing *.orig files

[chuckh at hhs48.com]

I did not check the man page first to see if I needed -r or -R, and some 
commands need one and some need the other. chmod and chown for instance 
need it capitalized. That's another reason not to suggest using the rm 
command on a line that also has the asterisk on it somewhere <smile>

Chuck


On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:31:45AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Yes, that would work too.  The only problem for me is so often, I do a
> "rm -fr *" that I might give that suggestion to someone and forget to
> include the *.orig; ooops, all his files would be gone:).
> 
> I noticed you had a Cap R there instead of normal r.  Is that
> intentional? I thought lower case r is used for recursive deletes.
> That's what I use all the time for my recursive deletes.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:23:13PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Steve,
> > 
> > Why not cd to the linux source tree directory and do this:
> > 
> > rm -R *.orig
> > 
> > But I agree with Luke, actually. You are talking of a several hundred MB 
> > tree, and a very very small amount of space for the *.orig files.
> > 
> > Chuck
> > 
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