Looping in a directory to find a folder and delete

Question

I use Dreamweaver to upload the web page to my site, it bring a folder called _note to everywhere in my site. I would like to ask how can I loop in the directory(/home/user/htdocs) to find the folder _note and delete it?

Answer 1

Assuming you have a shell on the webserver, this command would do it:

find /home/user/htdocs -type d -name _note -exec rm -rfv "{}" \;

However I would be more careful then that. I would start by doing this to get a list and make sure its good:

find /home/user/htdocs -type d -name _note -exec echo "'{}'" \; > file.txt

Then review the file and if its all good:

cat file.txt | xargs rm -fvr 

That way you can catch errors before you delete critical files.

Answer 2

You can use lftp with rm -r to recursively remove a folder/file pattern/name. I think there is command line version of lftp for Windows that you can download and install.