Recursively remove files
LinuxBashLinux Problem Overview
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...
Linux Solutions
Solution 1 - Linux
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 ...
Solution 2 - Linux
find /var/www/html \( -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' \) -delete
Solution 3 - Linux
Newer findutils supports -delete, so:
find . -name ".DS_Store" -delete
Add -print to also get a list of deletions.
Command 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 and works for others who've tested it on macOS 10.12 (Mojave).
Credit to @ephemient in a comment on @X-Istence's post (thought it was helpful enough to warrant its own answer).
Solution 4 - Linux
Simple command:
rm `find ./ -name '.DS_Store'` -rf
rm `find ./ -name '._'` -rf
Good luck!
Solution 5 - Linux
cd /var/www/html && find . -name '.DS_Store' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
cd /var/www/html && find . -name '._*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Solution 6 - Linux
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.
Solution 7 - Linux
find . -name "FILE-TO-FIND"-exec rm -rf {} \;
Solution 8 - Linux
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.
Solution 9 - Linux
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
Solution 10 - Linux
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
Solution 11 - Linux
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 {} \;
Solution 12 - Linux
This also works:
sudo rm -rf 2018-03-*
here your deleting files with names of the format 2018-03-(something else)
keep it simple