austenconstable.com » Perl http://www.austenconstable.com a year in the merde Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:19:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 HOWTO: Recursively delete matching files on the Linux command line http://www.austenconstable.com/2008/10/08/recursively-delete-matching-files-on-the-linux-command-line/ http://www.austenconstable.com/2008/10/08/recursively-delete-matching-files-on-the-linux-command-line/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:18:11 +0000 Austen http://www.austenconstable.com/?p=67 Continue reading →]]> An easy way to recursively delete files matching a particular pattern is to use this one liner:

find | grep "search" | perl -nle unlink

UPDATE – Another handy one liner to recursively delete directories is:

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Obviously replacing “.svn” with whatever your directories are called.

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