one option: rm -r */*/CVS would delete all occurences of anything/anything/CVS another way: find some/path -type d -name CVS | xargs rm -r On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:33:54PM +0000, Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > I have this huge directory tree. > Each branch has a "CVS" directory, that i now want to delete. > > How can i delete recursevely all the "CVS" directories and its contents, > but not the other files ? > > I've squeezed my head with find piping to xargs, but i always end up > deleting everything :-( > > Any help would be apreciated. > > Warm Regards. > -- > Mário Gamito > Administração de sistemas e desenvolvimento > Netual - Multimédia e Telecomunicações, Lda. > Rua João Afonso, Nº1 > 3800-198 Aveiro - Portugal > Tel. +351 234 371 431 / Fax. +351 234 371 438 > E-mail: gamito@xxxxxxxxx > www.netual.pt > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
