Delete all files by find

Question

How to delete all files found by this command?

find -type f -name "*-thumb.png"

`man find` --> look for delete – Marki Dec 27 '14 at 22:23 — Marki, Dec 27 '14 at 22:23

Ketan Maheshwari · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-27T22:20:43.677

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find -type f -name "*-thumb.png" -exec rm {} \;

If you need a prompt to confirm deletion, use -ok in place of -exec as:

find -type f -name "*-thumb.png" -ok rm {} \;

edited Dec 27 '14 at 22:20

answered Dec 27 '14 at 22:10

Ketan Maheshwari

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '14 at 21:28

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find -type f -name "*-thumb.png" -delete

Will work as well. I use it very often after merge resolutions on Git to remove the ".orig" files that Git creates.

answered Dec 28 '14 at 21:28

Darlan Alves

Just be very careful because of this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150628/why-does-find-delete-delete-all-files-in-a-directory-recursively?rq=1 – Darlan Alves Dec 28 '14 at 21:32

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