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Re:Useful Perl one-liners (2013) by EvilTerran on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:48AM (#13069534)
Isn't that just "rm -rv *"? The original spec was to only delete files, not directories - and only those matching a given pattern, at that.

Also, I think yours would go into an infinite spin if it met a symlink loop (say, "ln -s . foo") - File::Find is hardened against that kinda shenanigans.

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Re:Useful Perl one-liners (2013) by a_gopher on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:20PM (#13075600)
fair. not quite so pretty now...

  perl -E 'for(@ARGV){say,unlink for<$_/whatever*>;push@ARGV,($_)x(-d^-l)for<$_/*>}' .
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