Re: Recursively blowing away directories of a certain name

Don't use Perl if something else can do it better. A shell example could be:

rm -rf $(find . -type d -name '_vti_cnf')
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Re: Re: Recursively blowing away directories of a certain name by revdiablo (Prior) on Nov 26, 2003 at 20:08 UTC
If we're doing shell script, we might as well make it robust. Your solution is probably the simplest way, and will work most of the time, but will blow up if there're too many directories to fit on one command line. `xargs` solves this nicely: `find . -type d -name '_vti_cnf' \| xargs rm -rf` Or, if there are funky characters in the directory names, a `while read` loop is what I would use: `find . -type d -name '_vti_cnf' \| while read dir ; do rm -rf "$dir" ; done`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Recursively blowing away directories of a certain name
by revdiablo (Prior) on Nov 26, 2003 at 20:08 UTC

If we're doing shell script, we might as well make it robust. Your solution is probably the simplest way, and will work most of the time, but will blow up if there're too many directories to fit on one command line. xargs solves this nicely:

find . -type d -name '_vti_cnf' | xargs rm -rf

Or, if there are funky characters in the directory names, a while read loop is what I would use:

find . -type d -name '_vti_cnf' | while read dir ; do rm -rf "$dir" ; done

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