Dave Hall wrote:
> First bit of advice - never trust anyone telling you to run "rm -rf"
*snip*
> find /path/to/windows-files -iname thumbs.db -exec rm -rf {} \;
Technically speaking there is no reason to need the "-r" (recursive)
flag with "rm" when using "find" to find and delete files (as "find"
itself is recursive). You can also tell "find" to look for files only
with the -type flag, which is recommended in the name of safety and sanity.
And in the name of diversity, here's yet another way to do it (because
there's *always* another way to do it in Linux):
find /path/to/windows/files -type f -iname thumbs.db | while read FILE ;
do rm "${FILE}" ; done
find's -exec is handy, but program-specific. "while read" is nice and
generic, and can be used with heaps of other stdout outputs too.
And of course you could do it the GUI way - Places -> Search for
Files... do your search, and delete the results found. But that's
nowhere near as fun as the command line.
-Dan
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