Newbie q - rm recursive desktop.ini

[tghounsell]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie. I've copy over my mp3 library from a windows machine, now I'd like to remove the desktop.ini files and the thumbs.db files that win media player created from all the subdirectories. I think the command should look something like this:

rm -r desktop.ini

But that command doesn't seem to work. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Cheers,

[techmatt]

try this

su -
Password:
rm -rfv desktop.ini
rm -rfv thumbs.db

sometimes it helps to (-v) to see what is happening
sometimes it helps to (-f) force it
and then sometimes it helps to be root (su -)

[ceplma]

Originally Posted by tghounsell

I think the command should look something like this:

rm -r desktop.ini

It should be

find . -name desktop.ini -o -name thumbs.db

and if it shows all files you want to delete, run

find . -name desktop.ini -o -name thumbs.db -delete

[techmatt]

That works too