On 02/12/2021 15:22, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
find . -name "* "" -type f -delete
Well, that didn't delete the whole disk. It didn't do anything as far as I can
see.
I think you had a finger problem there.
This worked and did exactly what I wanted:
find . -name "* *" -type f -delete
So
Hi Peter,
I think that the command you give:
find . -name "* *" -type f | rm *.* -v
will indeed find all files named (anything1)(space)(anything2) - *however* :
it will pass the names to "rm *.* which will ignore them and delete all
files named (anything1)(dot)(anything2) ! (Which correspnds to
I'm hesitant to suggest something in case it wipes your root disk and
kills your cat, but if you're happy to accept a bunch of disclaimers then
find . -name "* "" -type f -delete
should do what you want.
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 15:11, PeterMerchant
wrote:
> On 30/11/2021 15:42, PeterMerchant
On 30/11/2021 15:42, PeterMerchant wrote:
I thought that my backup software Freefilesync was not backing up files with
spaces in the names, so I found online a solution that changed all the spaces
to -.
find . -name "* *" -type f | rename 's/ /-/g'^C
Now I have just checked my backup and
I thought that my backup software Freefilesync was not backing up files with
spaces in the names, so I found online a solution that changed all the spaces
to -.
find . -name "* *" -type f | rename 's/ /-/g'^C
Now I have just checked my backup and discovered that files with spaces in them
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