Recursively remove files

问题:

Does anyone have a solution to remove those pesky ._ and .DS_Store files that one gets after moving files from a Mac to A Linux Server?

specify a start directory and let it go? like /var/www/html/ down...

回答1:

change to the directory, and use:

find . -name ".DS_Store" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
find . -name "._*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Not tested, try them without the xargs first!

You could replace the period after find, with the directory, instead of changing to the directory first.

find /dir/here ...

回答2:

find /var/www/html \( -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' \) -delete

回答3:

Newer findutils supports -delete, so:

find . -name ".DS_Store" -delete

will work for you if you have an up-to-date POSIX system, I believe. At least it works for me on OS X 10.8,

Credit to @ephemient in a comment on @X-Istence's post (thought it was helpful enough to warrant its own answer).

回答4:

Simple command:

rm `find ./ -name '.DS_Store'` -rf
rm `find ./ -name '._'` -rf

Good luck!

回答5:

cd /var/www/html && find . -name '.DS_Store' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
cd /var/www/html && find . -name '._*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

回答6:

You could switch to zsh instead of bash. This lets you use ** to match files anywhere in a directory tree:

$ rm /var/www/html/**/_* /var/www/html/**/.DS_Store

You can also combine them like this:

$ rm /var/www/html/**/(_*|.DS_Store)

Zsh has lots of other features that bash lacks, but that one alone is worth making the switch for. It is available in most (probably all) linux distros, as well as cygwin and OS X.

You can find more information on the zsh site.

回答7:

find . -name "FILE-TO-FIND"-exec rm -rf {} \;

回答8:

Example to delete "Thumbs.db" recursively;

find . -iname "Thumbs.db" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Validate by:

find . -iname "Thumbs.db"

This should now, not display any of the entries with "Thumbs.db", inside the current path.

回答9:

It is better to see what is removing by adding -print to this answer

find /var/www/html \( -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' \) -delete -print

回答10:

if you have Bash 4.0++

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s globstar
for file in /var/www/html/**/.DS_Store /var/www/html/**/._ 
do
 echo rm "$file"
done

回答11:

A few things to note:

'-delete' is not recursive. So if .TemporaryItems (folder) has files in it, the command fails.

There are a lot of these pesky files created by macs: .DS_Store ._.DS_Store .TemporaryItems .apdisk

This one command addresses all of them. Saves from running find over and over again for multiple matches.

find /home/foo \( -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' -or -name '.TemporaryItems' -or -name '.apdisk' \) -exec rm -rf {} \;

回答12:

This also works:

sudo rm -rf 2018-03-*

here your deleting files with names of the format 2018-03-(something else)

keep it simple