[NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse

[Kenneth Loafman]

Steve Baker wrote:

> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>> I like the rm -r method myself.  Since its recursive, it does not 
>> expand all the arguments to the command line.  I have run across cases 
>> where expanding the find blows the command line length out of the water.
> 
> 
> No!  There *isn't* an "rm -r" method.  If you say:

Yes, my mistake for going too fast.

The method to avoid spawning thousands of rm's is to use find as:

find . -type d -exec rm *.zip \;

with the appropriate quoting, which I can never remember.

...Ken