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Old 09-29-2004
Data searching through directories
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
Last edited by MrJaunty; 09-30-2004 at 12:07 AM..
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Old 09-29-2004
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?
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Old 09-29-2004
sorry - hope explaination here is better
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 !!!
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