I have several directories with multiple files of all kinds in them. For example
directory ###### contains:
How do I remove recursively through all directories particular files (*r and *t) with their headers without hurting the rest of the files?
Thanks
The * glob must match immediately, i.e. cannot be used with the -r option.
In bash you can try say the current directory and sub-directories and sub-sub-directories
and ignore the "not found" errors, or use rm -f.
Test with echo first, then replace it with rm!
The more advanced method is with find
Test with echo first, then replace it with rm!
Are the files named exactly r and t? Then simply remove the leading *.
Otherwise, with find you can give exceptions
Or is there no dot before them? Then the exceptions are
I listed an example with all the files with their extensions in the original message.
The files to be removed end with r without dot and others end in t without dot.
Then my last suggestion should work.
The following variant might be a little more efficient
Read the sub expression in brackets as: if name is *[rt] and not name is *.*, or name is *[rt].hdr
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