[Discuss] Command line question

David Bronaugh dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org
Wed Jul 26 15:11:33 PDT 2006


Adam Parkin wrote:
> Quick one for the gurus: I have a directory structure that looks 
> something like:
>
> ~/temp
>     -> user1
>         -> CVS
>         -> a3
>             -> CVS
>     -> user2
>         -> CVS
>         -> a3
>             -> CVS
>
> etc, etc for about 37 different "userX" directories.  What I want to 
> do is remove all of the CVS directories from this tree so that I end 
> up with:
>
> ~/temp
>     -> user1
>         -> a3
>     -> user2
>         -> a3
>
> What's a quick way of doing this on the command line?
Hmm, if my other mail got through, this is a correction

find ~/temp -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;

David


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