ls and rm together

mmnnv · 04-08-2007, 10:06 PM

is there any way to use ls and rm together? maybe a pipeline?

i'm working on a vfat mounted drive and i want to remove all JPEG images and some OSX file from every directory..

Code:

./base
    .DS_Store
    file.mp3
    ./dir1
        ._.DS_Store
        file.jpg
        file.mp3
    ./dir2
        .DS_Store
        .FBCIndex
        /.FBCLockFolder
            .FBCSemaphoreFile
        ._.DS_Store
        file.mp3

and i want to end up with:

Code:

./base
    file.mp3
    ./dir1
        file.mp3
    ./dir2
        file.mp3

if anyone knows how to use "rm -rf" with "ls -R" or knows of a shell script that will do this for me, please let me know.

syg00 · 04-08-2007, 10:14 PM

This comes up all the time. Try "find" instead with either "exec or "xargs".
The manpage for find even has an example to do almost what you asked for.

mmnnv · 04-08-2007, 10:23 PM

thanks! i used 'find -name ".*DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;' and *.jpg and it worked great.