Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 11:08:06 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find and remove ? Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20110515110806.0195b6e0@sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinCHBC=V61Pxv1PMVRZsmSfUyGZAA@mail.gmail.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20110515102740.0195b6e0@sage-american.com> <3.0.1.32.20110514171011.018a0598@sage-american.com> <BANLkTinfwahWPuQEQYoxcBJBqgpTNH2FqA@mail.gmail.com> <3.0.1.32.20110515102740.0195b6e0@sage-american.com>
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At 11:32 AM 5/15/2011 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Thanks, Eitan, but it didn't delete. What did I do wrong? > >I would need to see what command you typed :-) >Go to the top directory you start deleting from and type >find . -name _vti_\* > >This will print out what it thinks should be deleted. If you don't see >the directories you expect here then please be more specific about >what should be deleted. >If you do see the directories you expect and running the find command >with "-delete" doesn't work then we could try and debug from that >point. > > >-- >Eitan Adler > The comamnd: #find /path/to/start/deleting -type d -name _vti_\* worked fine to give the listing of what to delete, but when just adding the "-delete" at the end didn't delete, just ran the listing again. Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american
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