Re: [Nolug] find folder delete contents

From: John Kosta <johnkosta_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:47:24 -0600
Message-ID: <43A03E8C.1060309@earthlink.net>

Kevin Kreamer wrote:
> -ray wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, John Kosta wrote:
>>
> How about (assuming GNU find and GNU xargs)
> find . -path '*/[Cc]ache/*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf
>
> HTH,
> Kevin

This worked like a charm. I took out the -R on the xargs to leave the
Cache folders. I just wanted them empty. This resulted in a lot of

/blah/blah/Cache is a directory and can not be deleted

errors, but that was ok, because it still deleted the contents.

Thanks, everyone, for your help.

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