[TriLUG] stupid 'rm' question

[John Turner]

The wildcard expansion only works one time. So the "rm -r" only applies 
to directories that match with wildcards.
This means you have to use find to do what you are trying.

John

On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 04:13  PM, Chris Merrill wrote:

> CVS leaves around these annoying .#filename.1.2.3 files all over
> the place...I'm trying to get rid of them.
>
> I tried:
> rm -rf .#*
>    did not work, although it worked on other wildcards (e.g. rm -rf 
> *.java)
>
> rm -rf .[#]*
>    worked, but not recursively (only in the current folder)
>
>
> I could simply do this with a 'find' piped into a script with some
> simple search&replace, but it's driving me crazy that I can't do
> it with just 'rm'...
> BTW, I'm running this in CygWin :(
>
>
> any ideas?
>
>
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