Re: -R switch in rm command doesn't...

Gordon wrote:
I am trying to remove files which all have the same part of a file name
that exist in sub-directories of sub-directories - the -R switch only
seems to go down one level not two or more. is that just a limitation of
the -R switch, or am I doing something wrong?

If foo is a directory in your current directory, then:

rm -R foo

will remove foo and recursively remove all its subdirectories (if it can). Is that what you expect?

Robert
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