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Deleting multiple directories with the same name

DISCUSSION Mário Gamito 3 participants 3 messages Jan 21, 2005 – Jan 22, 2005

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Hi,

I have this huge directory tree.
Each branch has a "CVS" directory, that i now want to delete.

How can i delete recursevely all the "CVS" directories and its contents, but not the other files ?

I've squeezed my head with find piping to xargs, but i always end up deleting everything :-(

Any help would be apreciated.

Warm Regards.

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#1 lore raw

one option:
rm -r */*/CVS
would delete all occurences of anything/anything/CVS another way:
find some/path -type d -name CVS | xargs rm -r

Quoted 8 lines · Mário Gamito

Hi,

I have this huge directory tree.
Each branch has a "CVS" directory, that i now want to delete.

How can i delete recursevely all the "CVS" directories and its contents, but not the other files ?

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I've squeezed my head with find piping to xargs, but i always end up deleting everything :-(

Any help would be apreciated.

Warm Regards.

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Mário Gamito
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Quoted 1 line · urgrue

find some/path -type d -name CVS | xargs rm -r

Coul be: 'find some/path -type d -name CVS -exec rm -r {} \;'

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