removing *.orig files

[John Heim]

I would do a find with a -exec. Something like this:

find /usr/src/linux -name .orig -exec rm {} \;



chuckh at hhs48.com said the following on 8/1/2006 10:12 AM:
> 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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