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Remove all ._* and .AppleDouble-files
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| Remove ._*- and .AppleDouble-files from folders. | |
| Adapted from Torkel's comment on http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20021118060850652 | |
| Cred to hiber for suggesting adding -print0/-0 to solve whitespace issue. | |
| See all ._*-files: | |
| find . -name '._*' | more | |
| Remove all ._*-files: | |
| find . -name '._*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm | |
| See all .AppleDouble-files: | |
| find . -name '.AppleDouble' | more | |
| Remove all .AppleDouble-files: | |
| find . -name '.AppleDouble' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf | |
| Remove all Thumbs.db-files: | |
| find . -name 'Thumbs.db' -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
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you can also delete files directly with
findusing the-deleteflag:this has the benefit of handling the entire operation using just
find(without spawning any child processes), and should be the most performant method in this thread.