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> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:47:08 +1000
> From: Lisa Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 07:28 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote:
> Dave Hall wrote:
> > First bit of advice - never trust anyone telling you to run "rm -rf"
> *snip*
> > find /path/to/windows-files -iname thumbs.db -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
> Technically speaking there is no reason to need the "-r" (recursive)
>
Dave Hall wrote:
> First bit of advice - never trust anyone telling you to run "rm -rf"
*snip*
> find /path/to/windows-files -iname thumbs.db -exec rm -rf {} \;
Technically speaking there is no reason to need the "-r" (recursive)
flag with "rm" when using "find" to find and delete files (as "find"
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 21:36 +1000, Simon Ives wrote:
> I've just copied a directory from my wife's Windows XP box to my Hardy
> file server in preparation to reformat her PC to run Ubuntu solely. As
> I copied the entire directory (her Windows XP user directory) along came
> some annoying and unne
try this:
find /path/to/directory -name "Thumbs.db" -delete
or this:
find /path/to/directory -name "Thumbs.db" -print | xargs rm
Lisa
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 21:36 +1000, Simon Ives wrote:
> I've just copied a directory from my wife's Windows XP box to my Hardy
> file server in preparation to r
I've just copied a directory from my wife's Windows XP box to my Hardy
file server in preparation to reformat her PC to run Ubuntu solely. As
I copied the entire directory (her Windows XP user directory) along came
some annoying and unnecessary Windows files, specifically a whole heap
of files cal
