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From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 12:19:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: find and remove ?
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> 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.

I forgot that adding the -type d won't let it delete non-empty
directories. Try running it like:
find /path/to/start/deleting -name _vti_\* -delete

>
> (^_^)



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Eitan Adler