How to delete all images from a directory/subdirectories

SentralOrigin · 04-16-2009, 02:36 AM

I have a directories with a few subdirectories within it, and I want to rm all the image files ending in .jpg within the directory and also its subdirectories too. What command can I use to do this?

druuna · 04-16-2009, 02:45 AM

Hi,

- First cd to the dir in question cd /path/to/jpgdirs,
- Then use find and the appropriate options: find . -type f -iname "*.jpg" this will find and print all the jpg's (and is a check to see if all is ok, do this before the next command!),
- If all is well, extend the find command to remove the jpg's: find . -type f -iname "*.jpg" -exec rm -f {} \;

Hope this helps.

colucix · 04-16-2009, 02:54 AM

For safety you can also use -ok instead of -exec: this will ask you confirmation before deleting files:

Code:

find . -type f -iname "*.jpg" -ok rm -f {} \;