Filesystem CLI Tips.md

Filesystem CLI Tips

Watch the following process

Open a terminal and run the following to observe the commands interaction with the fs as they happen.

watch tree top/

Make a multi-level directory structure, with kitties and puppies

mkdir -p top/{sub1,sub2,sub3}/{basement1,basement2,basement3}
touch top/{kitty,puppy}
touch top/{sub1,sub2,sub3}/{kitty,puppy}
touch top/{sub1,sub2,sub3}/{basement1,basement2,basement3}/{kitty,puppy}

Delete all the puppies from subdirs and below

find top/*/ -name puppy -type f -delete
# Or all the puppies and kitties
find top/*/ \( -name puppy -o -name kitty \) -type f -delete