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Date:      Fri, 4 Nov 2011 12:32:37 -0500
From:      Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
To:        Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: removing directories
Message-ID:  <3B4B42E9-6E69-4873-A333-13DCB8E9A842@d3photography.com>
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Graeme,

I don't have the answer, but I wanted to tell you it's not a n00b question at all: The solution is a fairly complex (IMO) series of greps and awks. Ones that I don't have the knowledge to do - and I am definitely not a n00b.

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Ryan

On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Graeme Dargie wrote:

> Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes.
> 
> I have a large number of directories  around 300 which all have sub dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two further sub dirs called pages and thumbnails, is there an easy way to remove all the pages and thumbnail dirs from the tree?
> 
> Regards
> 
> G
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