You need a semicolon at the end:
find /home/directory/ -name thumbs.db -exec rm -rf {} \;
Be careful with -rf. You should only need the -f in this case.
-Nathan
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:09:56PM -0400, Jojo Almario 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.
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> Find /home/directory/ -name thumbs.db -exec rm {}/ -rf
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>
>
> It either times out or tells me Im missing something in the -exec
> command. Im going to keep perusing the man page, but I wanted to see if
> any one could get this faster than my feeble skills would allow.
>
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> TIA
>
>
>
> JA
>
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