> 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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