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recursive delete by wildcard in unix
drwxr-xr-x 164 sample sample 4096 Apr 1 02:47 bigmouthfuls.com
-rw-r--r-- 1 sample sample 25609 Apr 1 05:01 bigmouthfuls.com.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 sample sample 7290 Apr 1 02:27 bigmouthfuls.com.txt
bash-2.05a$ rm *.html$a=474 -r -i bigmouthfuls.com
rm: cannot remove `*.html=474': No such file or directory
rm: descend into directory `bigmouthfuls.com'? y
rm: descend into directory `bigmouthfuls.com/001'? y
rm: remove `bigmouthfuls.com/001/index.html'? n
rm: remove `bigmouthfuls.com/001/logo.jpg'? n
rm: remove `bigmouthfuls.com/001/bmfkirsty-2.wmv'? n
rm: remove `bigmouthfuls.com/001/2.jpg'?
bash-2.05a$ rm "*.html$a=474" -r -i bigmouthfuls.com
rm: cannot remove `*.html=474': No such file or directory
rm: descend into directory `bigmouthfuls.com'?
oki... now I want to remove all the files with .html$a=474 from a directory and it's subdirectories...
i tried rm *.html$a=474 -r -i bigmouthfuls.com and rm "*.html$a=474" -r -i bigmouthfuls.com but it isn't working...
anyone?
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