Unix Shell - Re: How do I find file "findme" in tree "bigtree" searching only s

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Re: How do I find file "findme" in tree "bigtree" searching only s

Rikishi 42

2007-08-22, 7:23 pm

On 2007-08-21, Chris Allen <ca.allen@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I find file "findme" in tree "bigtree" searching only
> subdirectories named "in_here"?
> I've been pulling my hair out for an hour or so trying to figure out
> how to do this with the find command.

So, you're looking in bigtree, for subdirs called 'in_here', right?
And then you want to delete the file 'findme' if it exists in that subdir?

How about :

find bigtree/ -type d -name "in_here" -exec rm -v '{}'/findme ';'

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