You can use the find command to find or locate files on a Linux or Unix system. The search is recursive in that it will search all subdirectories too. The syntax is:
find /path/to/search criteria action
Here’s an example find command using a search criterion and the default print action:
find /nas01/backups/home/user/ -name file-Name-here
To match only directories, use:
find /nas01/backups/home/user/ -type d -name file-Name-here -print0
To match only hidden dot directories, enter:
find /nas01/backups/home/user/ -type d -name ".*" -print0
To descend at most one levels of directories below the command line arguments pass the -maxdepth 1 option. This will avoid deleting nested directories:
find /nas01/backups/home/user/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name ".*" -print0
Once satisfied with the result, use the xargs command to delete all hidden directories:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname ".[^.]*" -print0 | xargs -I {} -0 rm -rvf "{}" |
OR
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname ".*" -print0 | xargs -I {} -0 rm -rvf "{}" |
4 comment
Won’t this, without maxdepth also delete directories higher than the specified (.* matches “..”)?
Why not use -exec:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname “.[^.]*” -exec rm -rvf “{}” \;
why not use -delete:
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name “.[^.]*” -deletewe have got crammed
ls -al