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Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:01:26 -0600, "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)"
<yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>> I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I
>> use the following line to do this:
>>
>> if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2
>>
>> But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work
>> with wildcard, i.e., the _[ -f *.cache-2 ]_ isn't a valid arg. Any
>> hints on this issue?
>
>find /path/to/directory -name '*.cache-2' -delete
Good, thanks, I've got it.
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