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Subject: Re: Delete files in directory...
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Ivailo Tanusheff wrote:

>Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 
>Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>07/19/2005 05:34 PM
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>To
>Jonathan Glaschke <no-html@jonathan-glaschke.de>
>cc
>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject
>Re: Delete files in directory...
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>On 2005-07-19 16:27, Jonathan Glaschke <no-html@jonathan-glaschke.de> 
>wrote:
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>>On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:50:01PM +0300, Casper wrote:
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>>>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/*"?
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>>Yes, using cront to do that is possible and i think there is no reason 
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>against
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>>cron.
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>>you need "rm -rf /usr/files/*" if there are directories too in 
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>/usr/files..
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>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:
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>                 rm -fr /usr/files/* /usr/files/.[^.]*
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>Be very careful with the -r option of rm(1) though.  VERY careful.
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>Just my $0.02,
>- Giorgos
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>Why don't you use:
>find /usr/files/ -delete
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rm -Rf does the same thing (with removing .* files), but once again, be 
very wary of the -r and -R flags since they can cause a lot of damage if 
used improperly.
-Garrett