Re: [Nolug] find folder delete contents

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, John Kosta wrote:

> So:
> find /path -type d -name "*[Cc]ache*" -print -exec "rm -f {}/*.*" \;
>
> doesn't work, because of M$'s
> "Application Data/"

Are you on linux? This works on debian. You may run into problems with
other shell characters in filenames though (',",&,$,etc...).

find . -type d -name '*[Cc]ache*' -exec rm -rf \"{}\" \;

ray

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