[LBo] how do I recursive delete a file based on pattern match?

[Billy Pollifrone]

Andrew Henry wrote:
> Brain not working today...
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> I know how to recursive delete a directory with 'rm -r' but the same
> does not work when deleting a specific file pattern in multiple
> sub-directories, eg.
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> rm -r ZbThumbnail.*
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> It just tries to delete from current directory.
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> In Windows this is dead easy with del /s ZbThumbnail.* but I seem to
> remember that you need to use a bash script to accomplish the same in Lin=
ux.
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> Does anyone know of an easy way to do this or where I can find such a
> bash script?
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> --andrew
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find -name "ZbThumbnail.*" -exec rm {} ;

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