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Delete all directories found in $LOGDIR that are more than a work-week old | find $LOGDIR -type d -mtime +5 -exec rm -rf {} \; |
Delete all directories under '.cache/chromium/Default/Cache' directory tree that are at least 1 level deep and are bigger than 100 MB in size | find .cache/chromium/Default/Cache/ -mindepth 1 -type d -size +100M -delete |
Delete all directories under '.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/' directory tree that are bigger than 100MB and are at least 1 level deep | find .cache/chromium/Default/Cache/ -mindepth 1 -type d -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \; |
Delete all empty directories and directories that contain only empty directories under current directory | find -type d -empty -exec rmdir -vp --ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} + |
Delete all empty directories in the "test" directory tree | find test -depth -type d -empty -delete |
Delete all empty directories in the current directory tree | find -type d -empty -exec rmdir -vp --ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} + |
delete all the empty directories in the current folder | find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; |
Delete all empty directories in minimum 1 level down the directory 'directory' | find directory -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -delete |
Delete all empty directories under root | find root -type -d -empty -delete |
Delete all empty files and directories in the "test" directory tree | find test -depth -empty -delete |
Delete all empty files/directories under test directory | find test -depth -empty -delete |
delete all empty files in the current directory ( empty file = size 0 bytes ) | find . -empty -exec rm '{}' \; |
delete all the empty files in the current directory | find . -empty -exec rm {}\; |
delete all the empty files in the current directory only if they are ok and the user has the permission to delete them | find . -empty -ok rm {}\; |
Delete all empty files in the current directory tree | find . -type f -empty -delete |
delete all the empty files(files with size 0 bytes) in the current folder | find . -empty -delete -print |
delete all the empty in the current folder and all its sub directories | find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; |
delete all the empty in the current folder do not search in sub directories | find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -empty -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all empty subdirectories in and below directory/ | find directory -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -delete |
Delete all files and directories | find -delete |
Delete all files/directories in minimum 2 levels down the root directory | find root -mindepth 2 -delete |
Delete all files/directories named 'file' under current directory tree | find -name file -delete |
Delete all files/directories named 'sample' (case insensitive) under '/home/user/Series/' directory tree as super user | sudo find /home/user/Series/ -iname sample -print0 | sudo xargs -0 rm -r |
Delete all files/directories named test under maximum 2 level down the current directory | find . -maxdepth 2 -name "test" -exec rm -rf {} \; |
Delete all files/directories older than 48 hours in /path/to/files* paths | find /path/to/files* -mtime +2 -delete |
Delete all files/directories under current directory | find -delete |
Delete all files/directories under current directory tree excluding '.gitignore' files/directories and files/directories matching the patterns '.git' or '.git/*' in their paths | find . ! -name '.gitignore' ! -path '.git' ! -path '.git/*' -exec rm -rf {} \; |
Delete all files/directories under current directory tree with '.$1' extension where $1 expands as the first positional parameter | find . -name "*.$1" -delete; |
Delete all files/directories with '.old' extension under current directory tree | find . -name “*.old” -delete |
Delete all files/directories with inode number 117672808 under current directory tree | find -inum 117672808 -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files beneath the current directory that begin with the letters 'Foo'. | find . -type f -name "Foo*" -exec rm {} \; |
delete all the files ending with "~" in current folder | find -name '*~' -delete |
delete all the files ending with "~" in current folder | find -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
delete all the files ending with "~" in current folder | find . -name "*~" -print | xargs rm |
Delete all the files found in the current directory tree whose names begin with "heapdump" | find . -name heapdump* -exec rm {} \ ; |
Delete all the files found in the current directory tree whose names begin with "heapdump" | find . -name heapdump*|xargs rm |
Delete all files in the $DIR directory that have not been accessed in 5 or more days. | find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \; |
delete all files in $DIR that have not been accessed in at least 5 days | find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files in the /TBD directory that were modified more than 1 day ago | find /TBD/* -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \; |
Delete all files in the /myDir directory tree that were last modfied more than 7 days ago | find /myDir -mindepth 1 -mtime +7 -delete |
Delete all files in the current directory. | find . -exec /bin/rm {} \; |
Delete all files in the current directory tree whose names end with ~ | find . -name "*~" -delete |
Delete all files in the current directory tree whose names end with ~ | find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \; |
delete all the files in the current folder | find . -delete |
delete all the files in the current folder | find . -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
delete all the files in the current folder which are bigger than 1KB | find . -size +1024 ?print|xargs -i rm \; |
delete all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 14*24 hours | find . -mtime -14 -print|xargs -i rm \; |
delete all the files in the current folder which end with ".bak" or ".backup" and which have not been accessed in the last 30 days | find . ( -name '*.bak' -o -name *.backup ) -type f -atime +30 -exec rm '{}' ; |
delete all the files in the current folder which do not belong to any user | find / -nouser -exec rm {}\; |
delete all the files in the current folder which do not belong to any user | find . -nouser | xargs rm |
delete all the files in the file system which belong to the user edwarda | find / -user edwarda -exec rm "{}" \; |
delete all the files in the file system which belong to the user edwarda after user confirmation | find / -user edwarda -ok rm "{}" \; |
delete all files in the home directory which ahve the name core in them | find ~/ -name 'core*' -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files named "filename" in the current directory tree, except the one with path ./path/to/filename | find . -name "filename" -and -not -path "./path/to/filename" -delete |
Delete all files named "filename" in the current directory tree, except those with paths ending in "/myfolder/filename" | find . -name "filename" -and -not -path "*/myfolder/filename" -delete |
Delete all files named '-F' under current directory tree | find . -name "-F" -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files named 'sample' (case insensitive) under '/home/user/Series' directory tree with superuser privilege | sudo find /home/user/Series/ -iname sample -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files not owned by valid users | find / -nouser | xargs -0 rm |
Delete all files that have not been accessed in the last 30 days | find . -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files that were modified more than 60 days ago under '/path-to-directory' tree | find /path-to-directory -mtime +60 -exec rm -f {} \; |
Delete all files throughout the entire filesystem that are no longer owned by a valid user. | find / -nouser | xargs -0 rm |
Delete all files under $DESTINATION directory tree that were modified more than 7 days ago | find $DESTINATION -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files under $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly directory tree that were modified more than 32 days ago | find $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly -mtime +32 -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files under '/home/backups' directory tree with '.tgz' or '.gz' extension (case insensitive) that were modified more thant 60 days ago | find /home/backups -type f -iregex '.*\.t?gz$' -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files under /path/to/files that are not newer than dummyfile | find /path/to/files -type f ! -newer dummyfile -delete |
Delete all files under /path/to/input/ that match the case insensitive string literal 'spammer@spammy.com' in their contents | find /path/to/input/ -type f -exec grep -qiF spammer@spammy.com \{\} \; -delete |
Delete all files under and below the current directory | find -mindepth 1 -delete |
Delete all files under current directory tree with '.$1' extension where $1 expands as the first positional parameter | find . -name "*.$1" -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files under root whose status were changed more than 30 minutes ago | find root -type -f -cmin +30 -delete |
Delete all files under user's home directory tree that were accessed more than 365 days after their status was changed | find ~ -used +365 -ok rm '{}' ';' |
delete all the files which start with "Tes" in the current folder | find . -type f -name "Tes*" -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files with ' .o' extension in the entire filesystem | find project / src / -name "* .o" -exec rm -f {} \; |
Delete all files with 128128 inode number under current directory tree | find . -inum 128128 | xargs rm |
Delete all files with indoe number $inum under current directory tree | find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files with inode number 804180 | find -inum 804180 -exec rm {} \ |
Delete all filename* files under /dir directory | find /dir -name "filename*" -type f -delete |
Delete all filename* files under /dir directory | find /dir -name "filename*" -type f -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all filename* files under /dir directory | find /dir -name "filename*" -type f -print | xargs rm |
Delete all hard links to the physical file with inode number 2655341 | find /home -xdev -inum 2655341 | xargs rm |
Delete all hidden files/directories under $some_directory including $some_directory | find $some_directory '.*' -delete |
Delete all hidden files in the directory tree given as variable $FOLDER | find $FOLDER -name ".*" -delete |
Delete all hidden files under $some_directory | find "$some_directory" -type f -name '.*' -delete |
Delete all hidden files under $some_directory | find "$some_directory" -type f -name '.*' -exec rm '{}' \; |
Delete all hidden files under $some_directory | find "$some_directory" -type f -name '.*' | xargs rm |
Delete all HTML files under tree ~/mydir | find ~/mydir -iname '*.htm' -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all in the current directory tree | find . -delete |
delete all instances of the file "bad" if its size is 0 bytes | find . -name bad -empty -delete |
delete all the log files in the current folder | find -name '*.log' -delete |
delete all the log files in the current folder | find ./ -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
delete all the log files in the current folder | find ./ -name '*.log' | xargs rm |
delete all the log files which have not been modified in the last 5 days after user confirmation | find . — name "*.LOG" — mtime +5 -ok rm {} \; |
delete all the mp3 files in the current folder. | find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \; |
delete all the mp3 files in the home folder | find /home/ -exec grep -l “mp3” {} \; | xargs rm |
Delete all MP3 files under /tmp | find /tmp -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
delete all the mp4 files in the folder /home which are bigger than 10MB | find /home -type f -name *.mp4 -size +10M -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all non digits from index "$i" in bash array "depsAlastmodified" and print the hex dump as characters | echo "${depsAlastmodified[$i]}" | tr -cd '[[:digit:]]' | od -c |
delete all the normal files in the current directory whcih have the word "gui" in their content. | find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI | xargs -0 rm -f |
delete all the normal files in the current folder and do not delete those in the subfolders | find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete |
delete all the php files in the folder /var/www | find /var/www/*.php -type f -exec rm {} \; |
delete all normal/regular files in the current folder which are empty | find . -type f -empty -delete |