Syntax to delete all .ogg files recursively [solved]

I'm wondering how to go about recursively deleting all .ogg files from an entire directory structure.
Would something like this do it?
find /mount/point -name '*.ogg' -type f -exec rm '{}' \;
Last edited by graysky (2009-06-07 17:08:18)

kludge wrote:
B wrote:
Why not just
find /path/ -name *ogg -exec rm {} \;
damn. is there an o'reilly book about 'find' yet? there should be. i read the man page not too long ago and realized that it's a whole damned file-manager unto itself.
`man find` and search for '-delete'
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-06-07 15:36:18)

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