I have large tree, with many pdf
files in it. I want to delete the pdf
files in this tree, but only those pdf
files in sub folders named rules/
There are other type of files inside rules/
. The rules/
subfolders have no other subfolders.
For example, I have this tree. Everything below 'source'
source/
A/
rules/*.pdf, *.txt, *.c,etc..
etc/
B/
keep_this.pdf
rules/*.pdf
whatever/
C/
D/
rules/*.pdf
something/
and so on. There are pdf
files all over the place, but I only want to delete all the pdf
files which are in folders called rules/
and no other place.
I think I need to use
cd source
find / -type d -name "rules" -print0 | xargs -0 <<<rm *.pdf?? now what?>>>
But I am not sure what to do after getting list of all subfolders named rules/
Any help is appreciated.
On Linux mint.
Best Answer
I would execute a
find
inside anotherfind
. For example, I would execute this command line in order to list the files that would be removed:Then, after checking the list, I would execute: