Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jan 9 05:42:00 GMT 2009


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Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I
> use the following line to do this:
> 
> if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2
> 
> But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work
> with wildcard, i.e., the  _[ -f *.cache-2 ]_ isn't a valid arg.  Any
> hints on this issue? 

find /path/to/directory -name '*.cache-2' -delete


Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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