[GRASSLIST:2477] Re: wildcards

[Scott Mitchell]

Also, see g.mremove - IIRC it is just such a script...

On 5-Feb-04, at 11:40, SWlab wrote:

> [Thursday 05 February 2004 10:53] From Kirk R. Wythers
>> I have a large number of raster files to remove from a mapset. Are
>> wildcards available to expedite this process?
>
> It's far far better to use the "g.remove" function, than deleting the 
> files by
> hand (too many directories to search).
> Why wouldn't you just write a small script to create the list of all 
> your
> rasters, and then call "g.remove" ?
> Like
>
> for map in ${maplist}; do g.remove ra=${map}; done
>
> Your maplist can be created with as many wildcards as you want.
>
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