On 23-Mar-2001 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi debianers! > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form *.doc, scattered > into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What should I do? > (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but unfortunatly I deleted > the very clever answer by accident. I surfed the archives, but without > success) >
'find' is your friend. find . -name "*.doc" -print # start in this directory and recurse all subdirs
