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Old 12-03-2006
how to remove same file in the dir and subs?
Hi all,

Let say I have abc.gif file in the dir:

A
A/Sub1
A/Sub2

This abc.gif file is located in each of the dir and its sub. I want to be able to remove it at once w/out going into each folder and remove it one at a time.

What is the command to do that? Thanks
# 2  
Old 12-03-2006
look into using 'find'
# 3  
Old 12-03-2006
I got:

removes all files named file.1

find . -name file.1 -exec rm '{}' ';'
# 4  
Old 12-04-2006
I do it as follows,

find /dir_name -name "kapil.txt" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Deletes "kapil.txt" from /dir_name and any sublevels of that directory tree.

Regards,

Kaps
 
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