help with command line deletion

[Jyrki Wahlstedt]

On 17.4.2007, at 12.03, David Herren wrote:

> 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
>
Hi,
one thing you could use, is:
$ find somedir -name '.indelible-info' -exec rm -rf {} \;

with 'somedir' being a directory name (first a small set, finally  
'/'). Like this no other directories are touched.

HTH,

with regards,
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