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Re: cleanup a directory



> Hello List,
> 
> to clean some directories of mine, I use
> 
> rm -rf *
> 
> but files named as `.log' are not removed.
> 
> Is there a better way to do so ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerome


Your problem is that the shell doesn't expand the '*' to hidden files.
You could do '.*', but that would match '..' and '.' too. Your could rm
-rf the whole directory and then mkdir it again.

Otherwise
 find . -depth -mindepth 1 -exec rm '{}' \;

could do the job.

Christopher

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