Re: [SLUG] How to remove files en masse

[Sebastian Welsh <swelsh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 09:12 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have run out of space in our user directory file. All users have been
> warned to delete or convert the thousands of bmp files to soemthing else
> or they will be deleted. So now I want to carry out my threat. I can list
> them all with
> 
> ls -alR |grep bmp
> 
> but how do I feed something like that to 'rm'

More fun with find

find . -name "*.bmp" -exec rm {} \;

Alternatively

ls -alR | grep bmp | xargs rm

would do the trick but I'd advocate using a stronger regular expression
as otherwise

buysimonnewibmpc.doc in the accounts directory goes, too.

Cheers, Seb.