It is important to note, I believe that some of the directories these files are in contain whitespace. This may in fact be my problem. I have tried <br><br> # find / -type f -name 'Thumbs.db' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
<br><br>It doesn't help<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Caleb Cushing</b> <<a href="mailto:xenoterracide@gmail.com">xenoterracide@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;">I'm trying to remove the crappy remnants of windows on my linux box. one thing I want to get rid of is the Thumbs.db and desktop.ini files that were in my music folder and got copied over. I was trying to do it by piping find to xargs but that isn't working. It should and I'm trying to figure out why it isn't. I know I could just use the -exec option but now I just want to know why what I'm trying to do isn't working.
<br><br> # find / -name "Thumbs.db" | xargs rm<br><br>according to this <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8274/sam0306g/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8274/sam0306g/</a> that should work...
<br>I've tried variations<br><br> #find / -type f -name "Thumbs.db" -print | xargs rm<br><br>and all sorts of other things. I usually get this <br><br> xargs: unmatched single quote<br><br>I looked the error up and what I found was of no help. at least to me... I didn't get it. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to do it properly?
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