[ale] Recursive script help

[Joseph A Knapka]

Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> If you want a command, would not:
> 
> rm -Rf *.extension
> 
> be adequate assuming you are in the correct directory when you run it?

This command will recursively remove everything, even
directories and all their contents, that matches
"*.extension" in the current dir. My impression was
that what Gary wanted was to delete any *file* named
"*.extension" in this dir or any subdir, in which
case (as many people have pointed out) "find" is the
Right Way. You could do it with a complicated shell
script, but "find" is the standard tool for performing
arbitrary operations recursively on filesystems.

Cheers,

-- Joe
    Any OS distinguishable from Windows is not sufficiently broken.

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