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Re: on selective multi file delete



On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:46:04PM +0800, Chadi wrote:
> hello everyone ...
> 
>    i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of subdirectories using wget ...
>    is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget scatered all throughout ???

I'm not sure but would 

find <dir> -name .listing -exec rm {} \;

work? 

<dir> should be the base dir of the downloaded directory structure.




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