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Suppose I have a directory structure like this:

projects/ project1/ src/ node_modules/ dir1/ dir2/ dir3/ file project2/ node_modules/ dir4/

Starting from projects/ I want to delete the contents of all node_modules/ directories, but I do not want to delete the node_modules/ itself, leaving it empty, without folders or files inside.

In the example above the items dir1, dir2, dir3, file and dir4 would be deleted.

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The following will delete all files and directories within a path matching node_modules:

find . -path '*/node_modules/*' -delete

If you would like to check what will be deleted first, then omit the -delete action.

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