[WBEL-users] File deletion

[Francies Moore]

Hi all,

Thank you for your replies to my request for help!

I finally settled, after testing on backup copies! on the following 
(which was also done on a copy):

cd to top level directory of file tree to be "cleaned out".
 
find . -type f -exec rm -vf {} \;
 
I added -v so that I could see that it was doing its job.   There were 
about two thousand sub-directories to be dealt with (not all were 
populated) and it took less than a minute on the Xeon server.  I then 
renamed the empty top directory and copied the whole tree back to my 
Windows box where I now have a new start to the new year without losing 
last year's hard work!

Thanks once again.

Regards

Francies
http://www.thelinuxbox.me.uk