Might I suggest:

find path/to/sample/dir -name "._*.wav" -delete

:)

Test first without the "-delete" flag.

> On May 4, 2021, at 6:09 PM, Samuel Burt <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Same directory. These samples were created by someone else, so I don't know 
> what program created them. 
> 
> On Tue, May 4, 2021, 10:39 AM Dan Wilcox <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I'm interested in more info about this behavior. I'm only aware of macOS 
> Finder creating .DS_Store files and temp directories so Spotlight can index 
> and show media playback via Quick Look. Is something creating hidden temp 
> files in the same directory as the audio files themselves or are these in a 
> subdirectory?
> 
>> On May 4, 2021, at 3:47 PM, [email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm loading a directory of audio files but there are a ton of ._files.wav
>> that were created by OSX. I've got a bunch of audio sample directories like
>> this and I could go through and remove all these files, but this software
>> will also be used by someone on a Mac, so it's better to just ignore this
>> inconvenient OS behavior if possible.

--------
Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>



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