How to deleting some files under subdirectory

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi guys, sorry if my english not very well.. i have a problem.. i have a file and the structure is :

Folder/
Folder/10.123.124.20/pm_data/A200807
Folder/10.123.124.20/pm_data/A200807
Folder/10.123.124.20/pm_data/A200807
Folder/10.123.124.20/pm_data/A200808
Folder/10.123.124.20/pm_data/A200808
Folder/10.123.124.20/pm_data/A200808

Folder/10.123.124.21/pm_data/A200807
Folder/10.123.124.21/pm_data/A200807
Folder/10.123.124.21/pm_data/A200808
Folder/10.123.124.21/pm_data/A200808
Folder/10.123.124.21/pm_data/A200808

I just wanna delete A200808, but till now i even can't sorting the file using this command

ls Folder/10*/pm_data/A200808*

but when am type

ls Folder/10*/pm_data/*

it's work.. pls somebody.. help me :(...

2

For deleting the file that starts with A200808*, u can use the below code

rm -f ls -1 Folder/10*/pm_data/A200808*

3

many thx for replying my thread.. I already found the pattern..

find Folder/ -name A200808* -exec rm -f {} \;

am lil bit confuse, i've been trying this command before, but it's not working.. when am try again few hour ago, and they work's... strange... :confused:

i use this SunOS machine :

SunOS 5.9 Generic_118558-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

btw thx for helping me ;)....

4

You should execute below.

find Folder/ -name 'A200808*' -exec rm -f {} \;

Because
Before command parameters is used by find command
Your shell expands parameters.

After you execute "touch A200808.txt",
You can figure out difference by below commands.

echo A200808*

echo 'A200808*'
5

[quote=p50p100;302226935]
You should execute below.

find Folder/ -name 'A200808*' -exec rm -f {} \;

i've been tried using that patternm but it seems doesn't work.. anyway i will check again.. thx for replying bro.... :slight_smile: