Telnet Command Question - Delete Single File From Multiple Directorys

[Lee]

Anyone happen to know the telnet command to delete the same file name across a few thousand directorys?

Specifically, the thumbs.db file.

These are all on a unix server if that makes any difference.

Regards,

Lee

[Chilihost]

Lee, depending on how you are setup on the server, you can use * in a forced delete, ie,
rm -f /var/www/html/images/*/Thumbs.db
rm -f /var/www/html/images/*/*/Thumbs.db

etc...

Not sure if there is another way that is more efficient

cheers,
Luke

[dant]

A more appropriate way of doing this, would be to use the following:

Go into the directory tree where you wish to start.

find . -name "filename.goes.here"|xargs rm -rf

This will execute the command "rm -rf" for each file that the "find" command returns.

I would highly suggest using SSH instead of telnet, for various reasons. A quick search on google will assist you in finding reasons why telnet is no longer used, and SSH has taken over.

Thanks