Delete a filetype from a directory/subdirectory

[Naoise]

I want to delete all *.bak files from a dir/subdirs. Bash shell.

Something along the lines of rm -rf *.bak <mydir>

I realise this will not work, just used it to illustrate.

Any ideas?

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

man find

find /some/path -type f  -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \;

 

[PHV]

Another (faster) way:
find /path/to/dir -type f -name '*.bak' | xargs rm -f

Hope This Helps, PH.
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