find and remove multiple file using linux command

Question

I have a directory named classes which contains a lot of sub-directories -

classes  
  |-security  
  |-registration  
  |-service  
 ....

Each of these directory contains a lot of java files and their compiled classes files. I want to remove all the class file.

Going to classes directory I can list out all the class file using find command -

$ find . -name *.class

Is there any command in linux to remove all the classes file under the classes directory.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:51:05Z

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The usual answer uses the -exec option of find:

find . -name "*.class" -exec rm {} \;

Be sure to quote the wildcard, to ensure that it is passed into find (rather than globbed by the shell, first).

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Razib · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-15 13:32:21Z

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Use xargs with pipe lining -

$ find . -name *.class | xargs rm *

edited Mar 15, 2015 at 13:32

answered Mar 14, 2015 at 19:25

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Markus W Mahlberg Over a year ago

Mind to explain this a bit? Although, you are not using xargs, but a pipe to rm, which isn't necessary and may slow things down when compared to -exec rm.

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