Recursive rm w/ wildcard?

[jcooper11]

Want to do recursive rm w/ a wildcard, deleting all files named, for example, *.jpg, but leaving others, going all the way down inside a folder/directory.
Tried variations on ....
rm -r *.jpg
Not allowed? Another approach?
tia

[lurk]

find . -name "*.jpg" | xargs rm

YMMV and it will break for file with spaces in their names, the space case is left as an exercise for the reader.

[lurk]

Also you may want to check it with xargs -n 1 echo as a sanity check.

[HateEternal]

I am pretty sure that command should work, maybe try it with a capital R

[chornbe]

rm -fR /*.jpg <enter>

yep.

[lurk]

That will not get /foo/bar.jpg

The thing to remember is that the shell does the * expansion (globbing) and not rm. So you are always saying recursively remove these directories. Not recurse through these directories looking for these files.

[HomunQlus]

rm -rf [filenames]

rm -rf *.jpg

[ScottW]

at root /

sudo rm -Rf *.jpg

Bad things can happen, watch out.