How to delete files in subdirectories?

[MTK]

I am moving over my files from Windows, but Windows keeps packing all these *.ini and *.db files everywhere, and they are just sitting there, cluttering everything up and serving no purpose in Linux.

For example my Pictures folder, wich contains lots of subfolders within subfolders, a lot of them containing those pesky files. I tried:

$ rm -r *.db

but it only deleted *.db files that are in the current directory, and the ones in subdirectories are still there. How do I remove all of them without having to manually go through each folder?

[coopstah13]

this should work, though its not that efficient, open a terminal and cd into your Pictures folder, execute this code

for i in `find . -name "*.db" && find . -name "*.ini"` ; do rm $i ; done

[Shutdown]

So do you just want to wipe everythig out? Basically nuke it?

Would this work?


rm -rf *.*

Since you probably don't want to sit there saying yes to everything the -f option forces the deletion.

rm -rf *

That could work too, haven't tried it though.

[Kieren]

No!

Your first command will delete everything with a . in it's name, the second will delete everything

The original poster only wanted to delete certain files

[Shutdown]

No!

Your first command will delete everything with a . in it's name, the second will delete everything

The original poster only wanted to delete certain files

Right ok, I wasn't sure if he was being specific with just .ini/.db files or he was just saying them as an example of some. But yes, my command would nuke everything.\


If that's not what he wants, obviously just type the ending extensions that he would want to nuke...

[MTK]

$ rm -rf *.db

That didn't work.

Note that I have this alias in my .bashrc file so I wouldn't accidentally delete some important files:

alias rm='rm -i'

I don't know if that could interfere.

[Shutdown]

$ rm -rf *.db

That didn't work.

Note that I have this alias in my .bashrc file so I wouldn't accidentally delete some important files:

alias rm='rm -i'

I don't know if that could interfere.

No that's ok. What you type manually overrides what's in your ALIAS.


Try this.

$ rm -Rf *.db

With a capital R.

[MTK]

Still nothing!

[coopstah13]

did you skip over my post?

[MTK]

It did work, but it seems like there should be an easy way to do it.