Multiple file deletion

[Chaos]

Anyone know of a way to delete multiple files? Here's my scenario.
A friend, using my credentials was using a webcam and trying to save the images via ftp. Well something went haywire and uploaded the same image to my public_html folder approximatley a zillion times. To be more specific, when I login to my file host, my public_html folder now has 5340 pages listing copies of some image. At this point I am not sure how I am going to delete that much data about 9 gigs. I cant even pull the files I want to save via FTP because the public_html folder is so big it just gags my ftp client?
Any advice ?

 

[floyd]

Do you have ssh access?

 

[Chaos]

no shell access.. I have been manually deleting them..I'll be gray when I'm done.

 

[floyd]

So if you are not using ftp how are you deleting them?

 

[Chaos]

I'm deleting the files manually through the file manager in Direct admin!
Is that considered shell access? Even still the files are in the public_html folder, and there are thousands of them so at this point I have been deleting them page by page. I have sent in a service ticket to see if they will simply wipe and reload the server. I originally purchased an account to store my map files. When I quit gaming I kept the account for file storage and such. I was hoping the was a simple fix such as "click here to reload everything" lol obviously my skills are limited. I dont know how th get everything back to square one.

 

[nobaloney]

Do the files have something in common?

For example filename0000 where the numbers change but the filename stays the same?

If so you can use a template like this:

rm -f filename*

But only if you have either shell access (you say you don't) or if you have cronjob access.

You can create a cronjob to do it, let it run once, and then remove it. Or you can wipe your entire public_html directory with this in a cronjob:

rm -Rf *

Note that you'll wipe everything if you do that. You'll have to recreate your cgi-bin directory if you need it.

Jeff