Remove files recursively in Linux

How to remove all the .pyc files recursively from a certain directory including sub-directories? I tried

$rm -f *.pyc

This seems to work for only the current directory, but not the directories following it. Please help me..

3 Answers

You can use

cd <your_directory>
find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -rf {} \;

This will remove all the *.pyc files from your current directory and its sub directory

Use find:

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

or, if your find has the -delete option:

find /some/directory -type f - name "*.pyc" -delete

find /var/www/html -name "*.pyc" -delete