[TriLUG] find and rm command

[Paul D. Boyle]

A triluger wrote:
> This should be a relatively simple one, but I am having a little trouble
> making it all fit together.  Im trying to search through some
> directories with the "find"  command and delte any file within any
> folder that has the name "thumbs.db"  This is what I came up with so
> for.
> 
>  
> 
> Find /home/directory/ -name thumbs.db -exec rm {}/ -rf

try:

find /home/directory -name "thumbs.db -exec rm -rf {} \;

before doing anything drastic, I tend to test my find expressions by
substituting '-print' for the '-exec ...' string.  I would also think
twice about whether the '-rf' options on the 'rm' command are really
necessary, if the files to be whacked are really just simple files.



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