[SOLVED] shell script to search for files of specific extension and delete them all

rhklinux · 07-10-2010, 11:06 AM

Hi i want such a shell script or single line command to delete all the files with extension specified in script
i have bash !!

ex...
delete all files of extension .obj
thanks in adv

Bratmon · 07-10-2010, 11:21 AM

See

Code:

man find

rhklinux · 07-10-2010, 11:44 AM

i used locate to find files of specific extension , plz tell me how to delete them ??

Bratmon · 07-10-2010, 11:48 AM

Pipe it to rm.

rhklinux · 07-10-2010, 11:49 AM

i dont know how to pipe ,plz give me code !!

TB0ne · 07-10-2010, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhklinux

i dont know how to pipe ,plz give me code !!

Spell your words out, and do some of your own research. Read the man pages, and check Google. There are LOTS of examples on how to pipe things, and write shell scripts.

saptu · 07-11-2010, 04:50 AM

hi

suppose u want to find all the files with the extension .jpg in /

# find / -name *.jpg | rm -rf

hope this might help u if any errors please do correct me

colucix · 07-11-2010, 05:22 AM

Come on, people.. let's not joke with the remove command! You cannot pipe the result of find or any other command directly to the standard input of rm, since the files to remove have to be passed as arguments. The rm command reserves the standard input for user interaction. Instead, let's wait the OP follows the TB0ne's advice and elaborates something for which we could really give help!

Bratmon · 07-11-2010, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

Come on, people.. let's not joke with the remove command! You cannot pipe the result of find or any other command directly to the standard input of rm, since the files to remove have to be passed as arguments. The rm command reserves the standard input for user interaction. Instead, let's wait the OP follows the TB0ne's advice and elaborates something for which we could really give help!

I didn't know that.

If the file list didn't have spaces, he could pipe it into

Code:

xargs /bin/rm

simon.sweetman · 07-11-2010, 11:28 PM

Command to delete all files with .obj extension (from current directory):

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.obj" -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm

Some notes on what options are for.
-type f (only list standard files, not directories, devices, pipes etc)
-print0 | xargs -0 (use null to seperate list of files to allow for spaces in file/directory names). Note character in flags is a numeric zero
-r don't call rm if input is empty (i.e. no files were found)

rhklinux · 07-12-2010, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Command to delete all files with .obj extension (from current directory):

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.obj" -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm

Some notes on what options are for.
-type f (only list standard files, not directories, devices, pipes etc)
-print0 | xargs -0 (use null to seperate list of files to allow for spaces in file/directory names). Note character in flags is a numeric zero
-r don't call rm if input is empty (i.e. no files were found)

thanks it worked

rhklinux · 07-12-2010, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Command to delete all files with .obj extension (from current directory):

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.obj" -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm

Some notes on what options are for.
-type f (only list standard files, not directories, devices, pipes etc)
-print0 | xargs -0 (use null to seperate list of files to allow for spaces in file/directory names). Note character in flags is a numeric zero
-r don't call rm if input is empty (i.e. no files were found)

thanks it worked

Telengard · 07-12-2010, 12:14 AM

This command will search recursively starting at the directory given in /path/to/search/. Every file who's name ends in .jpg will be permanently and irrevocably erased. The deletion is done silently, so don't expect to be told what was deleted. Don't do this unless you are perfectly damn certain it is what you want.

Code:

find /path/to/search/ -type f -name '*.jpg' -delete

Also:

Code:

man find

Also:

Code:

info find

Also:

http://www.gnu.org/software/findutil...tml/index.html