help with command line deletion
David Herren
david at idiomatrix.com
Tue Apr 17 02:03:09 PDT 2007
As a result of a number of crashes (bad memory) and resultant disc
corruption failures, and then an imperfect restore from backup
software that I no longer use, my drive is scattered with _hundreds_
of folders named ".indelible-info". The dot obviously makes them
invisible in the Finder generally. There are hundreds and hundreds.
Virtually every directory on the machine contains such a folder
ranging from a minimum of 4k to upwards of 100s of k.
I have been using OmniDiskSweeper to delete them manually, but there
has got to be a faster way using the command line that would seek
them all out and delete them. Can anyone give me some pointers?
locate .indelible-info returns an enormously long list. I imagine
piping locate to some form of rm -R is the way to go, but the
potentially disastrous results of my misuse of that lead me here for
consultation...
/david
--
david herren - shoreham, vt us na terra solsys orionarm
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one
owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country
in which he was born. -Francois Fenelon
More information about the MacOSX-admin
mailing list