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.
>
>
>
> Find /home/directory/ -name thumbs.db -exec rm {}/ -rf
>
>
>
> 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.
Two thoughts:
The "-exec rm {}" part will run rm once for every file that's found. This
is a bit heavy on the ressources. Just print the file names to stdout, and
use "| xargs rm" on them.
Also, as others have said, with combinations of find and rm, it's good to
be paranoid. So, leave away the -r on rm. It's also good practice to only
find files and skip directories.
So, this might be a better solution:
find /home/directory -name thumbs.db -type f -print | xargs rm -f
-Tobi
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