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ls and rm together

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.

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.

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