[SOLVED] How to delete small files?

motherboard · 03-05-2020, 02:25 PM

I have thumbnail jpgs mixed with wallpaper jpgs. How do I delete all files below 100kb?

descendant_command · 03-05-2020, 02:25 PM

man find

uteck · 03-05-2020, 02:40 PM

Seems like a good project to learn some shell scripting.

bazio101 · 03-05-2020, 02:53 PM

You can use something like this to find all jpgs smaller than 100K

find <photo_dir> -type f -name "*.jpg" -size -100k -exec ls -l {} \;

If you are happy with the result, change "ls -l" with "rm"

BW-userx · 03-05-2020, 03:10 PM

this works

Code:

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userx@slacky.mac:~
$ find .cache/thumbnails/normal -type f -name "*.png" -size -100k -delete
userx@slacky.mac:~
$ ls .cache/thumbnails/normal
userx@slacky.mac:~

ondoho · 03-07-2020, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bazio101

You can use something like this to find all jpgs smaller than 100K

find <photo_dir> -type f -name "*.jpg" -size -100k -exec ls -l {} \;

If you are happy with the result, change "ls -l" with "rm"

And once again, somebody gave OP the handout they were asking for, enabling yet another "code fisher".

BTW, find also has a -delete option.

BW-userx · 03-07-2020, 08:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

And once again, somebody gave OP the handout they were asking for, enabling yet another "code fisher".

BTW, find also has a -delete option.

post #5

where is the sin in telling someone how to do something?

scasey · 03-07-2020, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

And once again, somebody gave OP the handout they were asking for, enabling yet another "code fisher".

BTW, find also has a -delete option.

find also has a -ls option, which produces a long listing.

GPGAgent · 03-08-2020, 10:47 AM

Or if you prefer use file manager, sort by size and just select all files below 100kb then right-mouse and delete.

ondoho · 03-09-2020, 01:19 AM

^ If they're all in 1 dir, if the system in question has a GUI, then I'd also do it like that

GPGAgent · 03-09-2020, 09:29 AM

^ Good point! Or you could use Catfish - see attached image - all png files with those less then 100kb selected - now they could be deleted quite easily.