Please help. I am getting back into UNIX and I need a script that requires me to start in one main directory (call it mydata) and under this directory searches several subdirectories within subdirectories. I need to search each directory to locate *_source and delete files within the directory (which is a parameter from the script, got that part) within the *_source directory. I keep messing up the syntax and I need it to run through without specifiing the directories (in case there is one added or several deleted in the course of time).

THANK YOU !!!

MrJaunty

I am not sure what you are asking for. Do you want to find and erase all files of the form *_source in My_data and all subdirectories below?

Trying to locate what subdirectories of Mydata contain a directory *_source. Some subdirectories may contain more than one *_source directory. Once found, I would need to go into the *_souce directory looking for a directory (01-12, which was specified as a parameter when first ran the script) and then finally go into that 01-12 directory and remove all files in that directory only...

I hope I explained that better ...

thank you for reply and help !!!