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

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