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Recursive ls with conditions

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Mar 15, 202616861 views
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Why can't I use a command like this to find all the pdf files in a directory and subdirectories? How do I do it? (I'm using bash in ubuntu) EDIT How would I then go about deleting all these files?

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ls -R *.pdf

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Why can't I use a command like this to find all the pdf files in a directory and subdirectories? The wildcard in your command is expanded by to all matching files in the current directory, before executing . How do I do it? (I'm using bash in ubuntu…

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