Recursively remove directories inside folder on same level Linux

Question

My structure is as follows:

├── Proj 1
│   ├── .git
│   ├── LICENSE
│   ├── README.md
│   └── example.cpp
├── Proj 2
│   ├── .git
│   ├── root_folder
│   └── README.md
├── Proj 3
│   ├── .git
│   ├── root_folder
│   └── README.md

...

Why is it when I do a rm -ri \\.git it says:

rm: cannot remove `.git': No such file or directory

Answer 1

you could try

rm -ri */.git

(not sure that's what you want)

Answer 2

The semantics of rm 's recursive search are not right for finding and deleting directories below the current one. The -ri flag will probably show each file beneath the .git folder right?

Happily if you are using bash , a one-liner with find will do what you need:

find . -name .git -type d -exec bash -c 'read -p "$0: Delete? " -n 1 -r && echo "" &&  case $REPLY in y) rm -rf "$0" ;; esac' {} \; -prune