Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:43:45 +0300 From: Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.bg> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Jonathan Glaschke <no-html@jonathan-glaschke.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Delete files in directory... Message-ID: <OF46AC7F18.B7E5315D-ONC2257043.0050C514-C2257043.0050EA06@procreditbank.bg> In-Reply-To: <20050719143416.GB18276@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
07/19/2005 05:34 PM
To
Jonathan Glaschke <no-html@jonathan-glaschke.de>
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Subject
Re: Delete files in directory...
On 2005-07-19 16:27, Jonathan Glaschke <no-html@jonathan-glaschke.de>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:50:01PM +0300, Casper wrote:
> > Sorry, simple, stupid q. How to make that what come in directory
> > /usr/files/ for example are erased? Or only put in cron after while
> > do "rm /usr/files/*"?
>
> Yes, using cront to do that is possible and i think there is no reason
against
> cron.
>
> you need "rm -rf /usr/files/*" if there are directories too in
/usr/files..
This doesn't remove ".*" subdirs. A more complete alternative that
doesn't move /usr/files under the feet of programs that may have it
open as their current working directory is probably:
rm -fr /usr/files/* /usr/files/.[^.]*
Be very careful with the -r option of rm(1) though. VERY careful.
Just my $0.02,
- Giorgos
Why don't you use:
find /usr/files/ -delete
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