Delete matching file from every subfolder of current dir

Question

I used this one to copy file in every dir:

find -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 cp .htaccess

Now i need to do reverse one and delete file with matching name from every sub directory of one i am currently in

Answer 1

If I understand your description correctly, you want to remove .htaccess from subdirectories of the current directory, but not from their subdirectories. In other words, you want to remove foo/.htaccess but not foo/bar/.htaccess. Then it's simple:

rm */.htaccess

You could have done without find for your initial command. find is mostly useful when you want to traverse a directory recursively, i.e. apply to the subdirectories and subsubdirectories and so on.

for d in */; do cp -p .htaccess "$d"; done

Answer 2

find /path/to/dir -name .htaccess -delete

Answer 3

The following assumes you previously run the find -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 cp .htaccess from the same directory you will run this one:

find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -name .htaccess -exec rm -v {} \;

The -v (verbose) option is optional but it helps to see what files are actually deleted.