Recursively remove files

Question

Does anyone have a solution to remove those pesky ._ and .DS_Store files that one gets after moving files from a Mac to A Linux Server?

specify a start directory and

Answer 1

Simple command:

rm `find ./ -name '.DS_Store'` -rf
rm `find ./ -name '._'` -rf

Good luck!

Answer 2

This also works:

sudo rm -rf 2018-03-*

here your deleting files with names of the format 2018-03-(something else)

keep it simple

Answer 3

Example to delete "Thumbs.db" recursively;

find . -iname "Thumbs.db" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Validate by:

find . -iname "Thumbs.db"

This should now, not display any of the entries with "Thumbs.db", inside the current path.

Answer 4

find /var/www/html \( -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' \) -delete

Answer 5

if you have Bash 4.0++

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s globstar
for file in /var/www/html/**/.DS_Store /var/www/html/**/._ 
do
 echo rm "$file"
done

Answer 6

A few things to note:

'-delete' is not recursive. So if .TemporaryItems (folder) has files in it, the command fails.

There are a lot of these pesky files created by macs: .DS_Store ._.DS_Store .TemporaryItems .apdisk

This one command addresses all of them. Saves from running find over and over again for multiple matches.

find /home/foo \( -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' -or -name '.TemporaryItems' -or -name '.apdisk' \) -exec rm -rf {} \;