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Find and remove command - can you tell me exactly what its doing?

find /app01/tomcat_local -name *jsp* -type f -exec rm -r {} \;


I would assume the above is just deleting any *jsp* below the /app01/tomcat_local directory - is this correct as its seems to delete more than I expect....
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Old 06-16-2008
MySQL check out the -r option.

It's deleting more, because it has a option rm -r.
-r is used to delete files recursively.
It would find all *.jsp files in the directory you mentioned, also it would find the files in their sub-directories.

Hope this helps!
 
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