On Monday 10 January 2000 12:00, D-Man wrote:
> cd / ; rm -fr *.exe
>
> ??
>
> This command will remove all files ending in ".exe" from the entire
> filesystem. Is there some sort of naming convention used for those
> exe files? If so, come up with a regex that will match all (or at
> least most)
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> cd / ; rm -fr *.exe
D>
D> This command will remove all files ending in ".exe" from the entire
D> filesystem.
No, it won't. It will find all files and directories in the root
directory whose names end in ".exe" and completely and permanently
remove them. 'fi
Hi!
Thank you very much to all of you who sent ideas. Finally I used
David's sugestion, which is along with Peter's and D-Man's ones...
Thanks again!
Marcelo
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:48:38PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote:
> To quote Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # How can I remove
cd / ; rm -fr *.exe
??
This command will remove all files ending in ".exe" from the entire
filesystem. Is there some sort of naming convention used for those
exe files? If so, come up with a regex that will match all (or at
least most) of those files without matching anything you want to keep.
bleah. why remove them? swoosh them into a temp directory where you can
delete them with prejudice.
but this is a much better idea: find out what the file command says about
your fortran OS/2 executables. say,
$ file bleeb.exe
fortran OS/2 hoopla executable blahblah
then us
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
->Hi to all!
->
->I installed potato at home because I want to move my production system
->from OS/2 to Debian. After two month of playing around with potato, and
->with the great help of people at this list, I am almost ready to stat
->working with
To quote Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# How can I remove all of them? I search in the rm documentation (man rm
and
# info rm) but I didn't find anything.
You can use a few tools to do this, but I'll focus on 'find'. Here's
what to do, assuming the files you copied over are in /old-dis
> How can I remove all of them? I search in the rm documentation (man rm and
> info rm) but I didn't find anything.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help
>
hm, if they have a common naming scheme, 'find' can help.
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