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How to loop through a directory recursively to delete files with certain extensions
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Write a script that deletes all the regular files (not the directories) with a .js extension that are present in the current directory and all its subfolders.
The answer should only contain one command after the shebang line, I've tried the following:
#!/bin/bash
rm -R *.js
… and:
#!/bin/bash
rm -f *.js
find . -name "*.js" -delete
Find all files in the current and child directories with the extension .js and delete the files.
The best way to achieve this remains the find command:
find . -type f -name '*.js' -exec rm -f {} \;
If however you want to stick to rm alone, it remains possible if you know exactly how many subdirectories lie under the place you're working in. For instance:
rm -f */*/*.js
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Rename multiple files based on pattern in Unix
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I have several files with the extension *.php in different subfolders in the folder /root/Hello. I try to rename all .php files to .html but I want to keep the structure i.e. the path to the file should remain identical.
I found all files with the following command:
find /root/Hello -name "*.php"
But I don't know how I can rename all files with *.php to *.html and keep the structure I think I must use:
-exec
But I don't which argument I should use with -exec
use find:
find /path -depth -name "*.php" -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "${1%.php}.html"' _ {} \;
I have a question about removing some files out of several folders.
To be more specific: There are 5 Folders which are only the same by a few characters. For example: o1_FolderF_xy and zz_FolderF_34. And in each folder with the characters "FolderF" I want to delete all the files which starts with "filename".
The last time I did it by hand.
Will this work? Or do i need a script with a loop?
rm -rf /path/toFolder/*FolderF*/filename*
I'm sorry, I think for most it's a stupid question. But I'm new to all the stuff and I just do not want to go wrong with the delete
Your suggested command will work just fine.
You could use find instead:
find /path -name 'filename*' -exec rm {} \;
Basically it search's files with filename pattern on /path directory and for each file it executes rm.
Or, if you want to just check into those specific directories:
find /path -wholename '*folder*/filename*' -exec rm {} \;
I'm trying to delete the files that visual sourcesafe inserts into various folders. It's this file:
vssver2.scc
Since I have many nested folders, I'd like to do this recursively from the parent folder. What would the linux code be to delete all files with .scc extension? (I'm on a mac).
Thanks.
Look for them and remove:
find . -name "*.scc" -exec rm {} +
To make sure you are going to delete the correct files, you can replace the rm with ls so that it will show these files.
Also, you can replace find . with find /your/path to indicate the exact path from which you want to remove. With find . it will start from the current path.
find . -name ".scc" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
I want to delete all files with a specific extension - ".fal", in a folder and its subfolders, except the one named "*Original.fal". The problem is that I want to delete other files that have the same extension:
*Original.fal.ds
*Original.fal.ds.erg
*Original.fal.ds.erg.neu
There are other ".fal"s that I want to delete as well, that don't have "Original" in them.
Names vary all the time, so I can't delete specific names. The *Original.fal doesn't vary.
I can only get up to here:
$find /disk_2/people/z183464/DOE-Wellen -name "*.fal" \! -name "*Original.fal" -type f -exec echo rm {} \;
It would be great if the command can delete only in the folder (and it's subfolders) where it has been called (executed)
When I run the code it gives me an error:
/disk_2/people/z183464/DOE-Wellen: is a directory
If you do not want find to dive too deep, you can restrict it with -maxdepth.
You can use a simple for loop for that. This command shows all the files you might want to delete. Change echo with rm to delete them.
cd /disk_2/people/z183464/DOE-Wellen && for I in `find . -name "*.fal" ! -name "*Original.fal"`; do echo $I; done
With "find ... | grep ..." you can use regex too, if you need more flexibility.
Can anyone give me a bash script or one line command i can run on linux to recursively go through each folder from the current folder and delete all files or directories starting with '._'?
Change directory to the root directory you want (or change . to the directory) and execute:
find . -name "._*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
xargs allows you to pass several parameters to a single command, so it will be faster than using the find -exec syntax. Also, you can run this once without the | to view the files it will delete, make sure it is safe.
find . -name '._*' -exec rm -Rf {} \;
I've had a similar problem a while ago (I assume you are trying to clean up a drive that was connected to a Mac which saves a lot of these files), so I wrote a simple python script which deletes these and other useless files; maybe it will be useful to you:
http://github.com/houbysoft/short/blob/master/tidy
find /path -name "._*" -exec rm -fr "{}" +;
Instead of deleting the AppleDouble files, you could merge them with the corresponding files. You can use dot_clean.
dot_clean -- Merge ._* files with corresponding native files.
For each dir, dot_clean recursively merges all ._* files with their corresponding native files according to the rules specified with the given arguments. By default, if there is an attribute on the native file that is also present in the ._ file, the most recent attribute will be used.
If no operands are given, a usage message is output. If more than one directory is given, directories are merged in the order in which they are specified.
Because dot_clean works recursively by default, use:
dot_clean <directory>
If you want to turn off the recursively merge, use -f for flat merge.
dot_clean -f <directory>
find . -name '.*' -delete
A bit shorter and perform better in case of extremely long list of files.