CODEWITHSUNDEEP
macosterminalcommand-line-interfacecommand-prompt
W0lf7
W0lf7

Reputation: 759

Remove all files with specified extension from network share on OS X using Terminal

After connecting to a network share on OS X I am looking to delete all files that have a particular extension (filename.exte for example) from all folders within the share. If i'm in the very top folder is there a command in terminal I can run that will do this?

If this it not possible, is there any other way to achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (1)

Paul R
Paul R

Reputation: 212949

You can use find:

$ find /Volumes/whatever -type f -name \*.exte -exec rm -f {} \;

However you need to be very careful - one slip and you could delete a lot of files uninintentionally - I usually do a "dry run" first:

$ find /Volumes/whatever -type f -name \*.exte -exec echo "rm -f {}" \;

(this will just list the files that would be deleted with the first version, but will not actually delete anything).

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions