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# 8  
Old 11-27-2009
In your example you could do: -

Code:
find $DIRLOC -name "$FILEEXT" | xargs -i rm -f {}

However this only addresses the issue of not launching rm as a new process every time you delete a file. So with a large amount of files to delete this will be considerably quicker than using -exec in the find command.

Still an issue is not following sub directories and unintentionally deleting files there. So either only do this in a directory that has no sub directories (and never will have!), or learn about the prune function in the find command. There are plenty of posts here on the subject.

Good luck
# 9  
Old 11-30-2009
Really Thanks steadyonabix
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Originally Posted by steadyonabix
In your example you could do: -

Code:
find $DIRLOC -name "$FILEEXT" | xargs -i rm -f {}

However this only addresses the issue of not launching rm as a new process every time you delete a file. So with a large amount of files to delete this will be considerably quicker than using -exec in the find command.

Still an issue is not following sub directories and unintentionally deleting files there. So either only do this in a directory that has no sub directories (and never will have!), or learn about the prune function in the find command. There are plenty of posts here on the subject.

Good luck
# 10  
Old 11-30-2009
you can try below..deleting may files at a time :
ls | grep "pattern" | xargs -n 100 rm
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