Re: Search then delete files
Although I've not used above command myself, I think a warning to the latter command will be in place. Use it incorrectly and you might render your installation useless.
The '/' indicates the root directory, so it might delete everything. If these files that you want to delete are in your home directory, navigate there first and replace '/' by '.'
Or use ~username (which will expand to /home/username)
Code:
find ~wim -name *.jpg
will just find and display them; add '-delete' if you want to delete them.
Note:
running it from the root directory will also wipe the (backup) data from external hard disks.
Last edited by Wim Sturkenboom; October 8th, 2012 at 01:33 PM.
If you don't make backups of your important data, your data is obviously not important to you.
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