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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting multiple directories inside multiple directories Post 302583804 by kkouraus1 on Wednesday 21st of December 2011 09:30:04 AM
Old 12-21-2011
Thank you for the reply and sorry for the confusion - i am confused myself when it comes to unix/linux.

I entered the first command got the following response::
Code:
find: illegal option --m
find: illegal option --i
find: illegal option --n
find: illegal option --e
find: illegal option --p
find: illegal option --t
find: illegal option --h
find: 3: no such file or directory

(I wonder where the 'd' went from 'mindepth')

i have triple checked what i typed and tried it twice.

thanks!

Last edited by radoulov; 12-21-2011 at 12:41 PM.. Reason: Code tags!
 

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