[ale] delete all files but leave folder structure intact

[Lightner, Jeff]

Also be sure NEVER to do "rm .*" in any directory.   Many a newbie has
surprised themselves by trying to remove .profile, .bashrc .mozilla
etc... that way.

The ".*" will match ".." which is a hard link to the parent directory so
tells it to remove a directory above.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:46 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] delete all files but leave folder structure intact

On 04/18/2011 03:22 PM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> To read into your question a bit, I'll assume you'd like to remove
> special files and symbolic links and named fifos as well as regular
> files.
> 
>   find xyz ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Nice.  I hadn't thought of that.

	--- Mike
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