Re: [tlug] Global Deleting with Wildcards

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Larry Stanbery wrote:

> "rm" will take wildcards, but it doesn't use the pattern to recurse 
> subdirs -- instead, you'd need to use "find", like so:
> 
> find . \( -name "*.tmp" -o -name "temp.*" \) -exec rm -f {} \;

Thanks much. With this as a start, I should be able to work it out. I had
already been using _find_ in a similar way to generate the information
needed to make incremental backups, so I do have some clue as to how this
works.

Chuck

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