Delete certain files with find in subdirectories only

Question

I want to delete certain files within my subfolders but not in the current folder. find offers a neat method to do that:

How can I recursively delete all files of a specific extension in the current directory?

for example

find . -name "*.bak" -type f -delete

but so far I only found instructions on how to delete everything in the current + all subfolders. Is there a way to perform this action only on the subfolders without cd into each subfolder?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '20 at 10:06

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Use -mindepth 2

find . -mindepth 2 -name "*.bak" -type f -delete

answered Sep 24 '20 at 10:06

pLumo

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Delete certain files with find in subdirectories only

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