I want to delete ._DS_Store file from the parent folder and all sub folders. How to delete the .DS_Store file recursively from all folders with single command?
(using rm -rf command)
find parent_dir -name .DS_Store -delete
With GNU find at least. Otherwise
find parent_dir -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
Or
find parent_dir -name .DS_Store -exec rm -f +
To do this in the current directory you can do
find $(pwd) -name .DS_Store -delete
or other commands in place of -delete as show in previous answer.
I am deleting the files in all the directories and subdirectories using the command below:
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
But I want to know which are the files deleted along with their paths. How can I do this?
Simply add a -print argument to your find.
$ find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print -exec rm -f {} \;
As noted by #JonathanRoss below, you can achieve an equivalent result with the -v option to rm.
It's not the scope of your question, but more generally it gets more interesting if you want to delete directories recursively. Then:
a simple -exec rm -r argument keeps it silent
a -print -exec rm -r argument reports the toplevel directories you're operating on
a -exec rm -rv argument reports all you're removing
I found out on one of my servers an infinite succession of empty sub-directories.
I tried :
rm -Rf <dir>
Then
find . -name /<dir>/* -exec rm -f {} \;
And eventually
rsync -a --delete /emptydir/* /<dir>/*
But none of these worked out.
Does anyone have a better idea?
Thanks a lot.
PS : just so you know, I tried a "find" command with "mindepth" argument and I still have something after 8000 subdirs...
There can't be an indefinite loop of sub dirs if you ignore symlinks. I guess you are a victim of symlinks.
Therefore use the following command, it will only find directories not symlinks:
find -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
You might want to delete directories depth-first:
find . -depth -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
find doesn't follow symbolic links by default.
find . -name "*.pyc" -print0| xargs -0 rm
i use this command delete python compiled file but if current directory didn't have any *.pyc
file this cmd will not work
print out the error with rm command need operator args
how to handle this work if current directory didn't have *.pyc file this situation?
Using find -exec:
find -name '*.pyc' -exec rm {} \;
or the discard output technique:
find . -name "*.pyc" -print0| xargs -0 -I{} rm {} &> /dev/null
If you can assume GNU find, then you can use find . -name '*.pyc' -delete.
Alternatively, find . -name '*.pyc' -exec rm -rf {} '+'.
I've renamed some files in a fairly large project and want to remove the .pyc files they've left behind. I tried the bash script:
rm -r *.pyc
But that doesn't recurse through the folders as I thought it would. What am I doing wrong?
find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -f {} \;
find . -name '*.pyc' -type f -delete
Surely the simplest.
Add to your ~/.bashrc:
pyclean () {
find . -type f -name "*.py[co]" -delete
find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -delete
}
This removes all .pyc and .pyo files, and __pycache__ directories. It's also very fast.
Usage is simply:
$ cd /path/to/directory
$ pyclean
In current version of debian you have pyclean script which is in python-minimal package.
Usage is simple:
pyclean .
If you're using bash >=4.0 (or zsh)
rm **/*.pyc
Note that */*.pyc selects all .pyc files in the immediate first-level subdirectories while **/*.pyc recursively scans the whole directory tree. As an example, foo/bar/qux.pyc will be deleted by rm **/*.pyc but not by */*.pyc.
The globstar shell options must be enabled. To enable globstar:
shopt -s globstar
and to check its status:
shopt globstar
For windows users:
del /S *.pyc
I used to use an alias for that:
$ which pycclean
pycclean is aliased to `find . -name "*.pyc" | xargs -I {} rm -v "{}"'
find . -name '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
The find recursively looks for *.pyc files. The xargs takes that list of names and sends it to rm. The -print0 and the -0 tell the two commands to seperate the filenames with null characters. This allows it to work correctly on file names containing spaces, and even a file name containing a new line.
The solution with -exec works, but it spins up a new copy of rm for every file. On a slow system or with a great many files, that'll take too long.
You could also add a couple more args:
find . -iname '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm
iname adds case insensitivity, like *.PYC . The no-run-if-empty keeps you from getting an error from rm if you have no such files.
$ find . -name '*.pyc' -delete
This is faster than
$ find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -rf {} \;
Further, people usually want to remove all *.pyc, *.pyo files and __pycache__ directories recursively in the current directory.
Command:
find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf
Django Extension
Note: This answer is very specific to Django project that have already been using Django Extension.
python manage.py clean_pyc
The implementation can be viewed in its source code.
Just to throw another variant into the mix, you can also use backquotes like this:
rm `find . -name *.pyc`
full recursive
ll **/**/*.pyc
rm **/**/*.pyc
Now there is a package pyclean on PyPI, which is easy to use, and cross-platform. User just need a simple command line to clean all __pycache__ files in current dir:
pyclean .
if you don't want .pyc anymore you can use this single line in a terminal:
export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
if you change your mind:
unset PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
First run:
find . -type f -name "*.py[c|o]" -exec rm -f {} +
Then add:
export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
To ~/.profile
rm -r recurses into directories, but only the directories you give to rm. It will also delete those directories. One solution is:
for i in $( find . -name *.pyc )
do
rm $i
done
find will find all *.pyc files recursively in the current directory, and the for loop will iterate through the list of files found, removing each one.
find . -name "*.pyc"|xargs rm -rf
If you want to delete all the .pyc files from the project folder.
First, you have
cd <path/to/the/folder>
then find all the .pyc file and delete.
find . -name \*.pyc -delete
You can run find . -name "*.pyc" -type f -delete.
But use it with precaution. Run first find . -name "*.pyc" -type f to see exactly which files you will remove.
In addition, make sure that -delete is the last argument in your command. If you put it before the -name *.pyc argument, it will delete everything.
To delete all the python compiled files in current directory.
find . -name "__pycache__"|xargs rm -rf
find . -name "*.pyc"|xargs rm -rf
If you want remove all *.pyc files and __pycache__ directories recursively in the current directory:
with python:
import os
os.popen('find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf')
or manually with terminal or cmd:
find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf
py3clean works for me!
cd /usr/local/lib/python3.9
sudo py3clean -v .
Had to add a few ignore params on M1:
pyclean --verbose . --ignore "Library",".Trash"