Find Files And Delete Recursively

Problem

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Sometimes when using monorepos to host multiple services in a single repository, there may be a requirement to delete a file or list of files from each microservice. For example, I needed to delete application-dev.yml files for all the services after getting rid of dev environment in favor of acceptance.

Solution

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Use following find command to find application-dev.yml files recursively and delete them.

find . -name "application-dev.yml" -type f -delete

we may also use glob filters while using find:

find . -name "application-d*.yml" -type f -delete