Re: [Nolug] find folder delete contents

-ray wrote:
> 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 \"{}\" \;

Yes, -- on Slackware. The above did not work for me. I don't get an
error, but neither do the files get deleted. Not sure what is going
wrong on that one.

However, the next post did work, using xargs.
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