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punkandacoke

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Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 10

removing all .ini files from a directory structure [solved]

I moved all of my music files over from my windows partition and windows media player left a bunch of .ini files, so how would I delete all of them with one command.

find /root/music -name *.ini

That finds all the files that need to be deleted but I can't figure out the rm command that I would run afterwards.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: removing all .ini files from a directory structure [solved]

rm -f `find /root/music -name *.ini`

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: removing all .ini files from a directory structure [solved]

naaaaaaah!

find /root/music -name *.ini -exec rm {} ;

-exec will run the command straight away

find /root/music -name *.ini -ok rm {} ;

-ok you have to use y/n confirmation

in both cases {} is the filename passed along

punkandacoke

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Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 10

Re: removing all .ini files from a directory structure [solved]

thanks alot guys