This will delete them: find /Volumes/<name of drive> -name ._\* -print0 | xargs -0 rm
The find command finds the list and prints them out, using null characters to separate them (to handle files with spaces in the name correctly), and the xargs command will run the rm command with each file. - Ian On Jul 27, 2013, at 11:21 AM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a new car with a USB port. The audio system can play songs, arranged > in hierarchical folders, from a flash drive. As a test, I copied a small > part of my iTunes Music folder (which contains artist folders, each of which > contains album folders) to a FAT32-formatted flash drive. Using the flash > drive is not quite as nice as using an iPod, but it seems to work. Also, I'd > be much more comfortable leaving my little flash drive in the car at all > times than my iPod, and there is no battery to worry about draining. > > One problem, however, is that copying my iTunes Music folder to the FAT32 > flash drive creates a hidden file for each visible file, thus resulting in > twice as many files. These hidden files are not very large, so perhaps they > are some sort of meta data, but they make for a lot of clutter because they > are visible on the car's display. > > I used the Terminal to delete a few of these hidden files, one at a time, and > this seemed to work, but deleting all of these files one at a time throughout > the entire flash drive would be very tedious and time consuming. I don't > know enough about UNIX to write a command to recursively go through the > entire copy of my iTunes Music folder on the flash drive and delete the > hidden files. I'd guess this is simple for many of you, though, so could > someone please suggest a command (or a script) that would accomplish this for > me? > > Every hidden file seems to start with "._" (without the double quotes) and > then matches the rest of the regular file name. I tried the following > command: > > rm -R ._* > > from the base directory, but it did not work. Can someone please help me > with the correct command for removing these extra files? Alternatively, is > there a command that would only copy the desired files, without creating > these extra files, when copying files from my Mac to the flash drive in the > first place? > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
