thumbs.db, desktop.ini and friends

gazj · 2008-09-29 19:01:21

You know them annoying files that windows likes to leave around

Anyone know of a bit of bash that will go thorugh my ~ and delete them.

Thanks

Last edited by gazj (2008-09-29 19:01:39)

andre.ramaciotti · 2008-09-29 19:17:33

on your ~:
$ find -name thumbs.db

check whether there's something that shouldn't be deleted on this list, and then
$ rm `find -name thumbs.db`

I guess it should work. (only if there are no spaces in the filenames, though)

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2008-09-29 19:21:30)

gazj · 2008-09-29 19:21:08

oh duh, thats so obvious, why didn't I think of that.

Thanks

ezzetabi · 2008-09-29 20:30:55

even easier:

find ~ -iregex '.*/thumbs.db\|.*/desktop.ini' -delete

Last edited by ezzetabi (2008-09-29 20:31:29)

Daenyth · 2008-09-30 13:48:11

Just as a note, it's Thumbs.db, and desktop.ini. Case matters ;P

I have a find -delete in cron for those files, since I get file transfers from a windows friend fairly often.

ezzetabi · 2008-09-30 13:57:19

it is -iregex (not -regex) case does not matter.

gazj · 2008-09-30 17:54:53

Thank you ezzetabi works great. I did know it was Thumbs, just for some reason used lowercase in my initial post

moljac024 · 2008-09-30 19:31:54

It's lowercase, Windows makes no distinction between cases.

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