help with command line deletion

[LuKreme]

On 17-Apr-2007, at 03:03, 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?

find / -name ".indelible-info" -exec rm {} \;

this executes find from the  root folder and looks for files named  
exactly .indelible-info and then executes the command 'rm {thing I  
found}' for each file.

Run it as sudo if you are not the owner of the files.  If you want to  
see what files it is going to delete, run

find / -name ".indelible-info" -exec ls -al {} \;

or the simpler

find / -name ".indelible-info" -ls


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