removing all files with pattern...

[rudie_rage]

I used soundkonverter to change the file format of about 5600 songs, all organized neatly into their own folders. Something went wrong halfway, and i had to start over. I didnt realize that it wouldnt overwrite the duplicates, and instead just added a '.new.' into the filenames. Now amarok says i have over 10 000 songs, but half of them are duplicates.

so ive been trying to simply recursively remove anything that has a '.new.' in the name, but so far no luck.

so far i've tried rm -rvf Music/*.new.* and cant figure out why it does nothing. A little help would be appreciated.

[devils casper]

Hi rudie_rage !

rm -rf Music/*.new.* wont delete any file ending with .new only. its looking for filenames having .new. ( dot new dot ).

Try removing an extra . ( dot ) after .new

rm -rf Music/*.new*

[bigtomrodney]

Try this in the Music directory -

find -iname *.new -exec echo {} \;

If that gives you the correct list you can let the same command do the deleting -

find -iname *.new -exec rm {} \;

[rudie_rage]

Thanks for the help guys! Got it all sorted