Deleting all image files with "small" keyword

Paolo Galtieri pgaltieri at gmail.com
Sat Apr 10 21:42:21 UTC 2010


On 04/10/2010 02:28 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote:
> I've been using Fedora for a while, but I must confess that when it
> comes to shell scripting I'm found wanting many a times.
> The thing is, I have an Audio Folder which contains hundreds of track
> with Album arts. Most of the album arts are small and Big, I would
> want a script which would search my audio directory and it sub-folders
> and delete all image files with the term "small" as part of the file
> names (eg, AlbumartSmall, Folder_small etc ...)
>    
One way to do it is:

find <folder name> -type f -name "*[Ss]mall*" -exec rm {} \;

this will remove all files in <folder name> that has small or Small in 
the name.

Paolo


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