Preserved Topic: rm -r *.bak (Page 1 of 1)

Can anyone explain why this command is only affecting the current directory contents? I thought it was supposed to recursively descend into subdirectories.

-jiblet

I don't know if it will work, but maybe try ./*.bak



[This message has been edited by JakeB (edited 07-18-2001).]

rm -r *.bak looks for files name anything followed by .bak. Unless you have a directory named something.bak, the command will ignore all your current directories.

Try something like rm -r ./*/*.bak and I'm not even sure that will work.

This command will work find . -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \;. Tha command will find all files below the current directory and delete them if the are named according to the pattern "*.bak".

Ah, i see, thanks.

-jiblet