How to remove all FIFO files with a shell command

Question

I can't find a shell command to remove all the FIFO files inside a directory. In fact, for the removal of directories, the rm command offers the options -d, --dir, but for FIFOs it offers no option.

For now, the only workaround found is to call the FIFO like foo.fifo so that it is easy to remove them with rm *.fifo.

Solution 1

To delete all FIFOs in the current directory and all sub-folders use

find . -type p -delete

To delete FIFOs only in the current directory use

find .  -maxdepth 1 -type p -delete

Solution 2

shell only for current directory...

set -- ./*
for f do
    [ -p "$f" ] && rm "$f"
done