console scripting help

cs-cam · 12-15-2004, 08:53 PM

This is probably a pretty basic question, I've got a huge library of mp3s but I downloaded about half in windows so some of the directories have desktop.ini files and thumbs.db files in them. This is stuffing up Rhythmbox when I try to import the whole directory.

Back on topic, I know that I can run this to get a list of all the files I need to delete

Code:

# find /media/Library | grep -e ini$

but is there a way I can rm all those files without doing it manually. It's not that big of an issue but I figure I could use this as a learning experience

Thanks

amfoster · 12-15-2004, 09:00 PM

well, you can always use the -exec option to find.

example:

find . -name "*.ini" -o -name "*.db" -exec rm {} \;

arjen · 01-12-2005, 02:04 PM

You may also use the xargs command:

Code:

find /media/Library | grep -e ini$ | xargs rm

cheers!