Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to write a command to remove all the files from a folder and inner child folder without removing the child folders of parent folder.

like I have folder like this...


Code:
folder a/b/c
file a/test.sql
file a/b/test2.txt
file a/b/c/temp.jpeg

now I want to remove all the files from folder a (test.sql, test2.txt and temp.jpeg) without removing folders b and c.


Thanks in advance.

Kashif.

you should provide the absolute path to the file names while removing.

Code:

find a/ -name test.sql -o -name test2.txt -o -name temp.jpeg -exec rm {} \;

This will remove files, but not directory

Code:

find s -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

HI chihung

plz tell me where should i execute this command?

Code:

find s -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

-exec rm -f {} \;

will remove file selected by find

Try it yourself to be convinced

If you have folder structure like this
Code:
folder a/b/c
file a/test.sql
file a/b/test2.txt
file a/b/c/temp.jpeg

Then you should give
from outside of folder a. If you give full path of a folder, you can execute this command from any path. Hope this helps you.

-Nithin.