Ubuntu – Command to delete all files from folders matching name recursivly

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I have my base folder (let's call it base).

I have a bunch of folders inside, scattered at various depths within these folders are cache folders.

I want to delete all files from within the cache folders, but not the folders themselves.

I have tried

cd base
#then one of...
sudo rm -rf cache/*
sudo rm -rf *cache/*
sudo rm -rf cache*/*
sudo rm -rf *cache*/*

But really am just guessing, what would be the right command?

In bash, you can enable globstar and use ** to match directories recursively

shopt -s globstar
echo rm -rf ./**/*cache*/*

If you go one level up, you can do:

~music/artist_a/album1$ cd ..
~music/artist_a$ rm */*.mp3

to delete mp3s from every directory inside the current. If you want to delete only from specific subdirectories:

~music/artist_a$ rm {album1,album2,album4}/*.mp3

You can also use find to delete all mp3 in subfolders of every level

~music/artist_a$ find . -iname '*.mp3' -delete

Use these command with caution.

Try find ./application/ -type d -not -name config -not -name logs.

If that returns the proper directories, run

find ./application/ -type d -not -name config -not -name logs -exec rm -R {} \;

The exec rm -R {} \; at the end removes the directory even if it is not empty.