remove all of a file type from a directory and its children

Question

I was under impression that

rm -r *.xml

would remove all file from parent and child however:

*.xml: No such file or directory
         


        

Answer 1

ZSH recursive globbing to the rescue!

Invoke zsh: zsh

Be sure you're in the dir you intend to be in: cd wherever

List first: ls **/*.xml

Remove: rm **/*.xml

I'll resist the strong temptation to bash on bash, and just point to the relevant zsh docs on the topic here.