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Remove directories when specific file is in directory?
Hello 
I need little help i have following cmd:
this only able to delete files but not folder which contain that file
find /home/test/* -name "*.testfile" -type f -exec rm -i {} \;
how to delete whole directory if file called somethingblahblah.testfile is there?
Thanks you
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I'll advise only once to do a dryrun (without the last part) at first to see what dirs get listed. and take special care which path you search in, rm -rf is forcing recursive removal on all directories found...
You could try something like
find /home/test/* -name "*.testfile" -type f -exec sh -c 'f="{}"; rm -i "$f" && rmdir "${f%/*}"' \;buy you're playing with fire here.
(The above will attempt to remove the containing directory, but but the rmdir will fail if the directory is not empty. I presume this is what you want.)
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