Delete all files by find

Question

How to delete all files found by this command?

find -type f -name "*-thumb.png"

Ketan · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-27 22:20:43Z

find -type f -name "*-thumb.png" -exec rm {} \;

If you need a prompt to confirm deletion, use -ok in place of -exec as:

find -type f -name "*-thumb.png" -ok rm {} \;

Darlan Alves · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-28 21:28:16Z

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find -type f -name "*-thumb.png" -delete

Will work as well. I use it very often after merge resolutions on Git to remove the ".orig" files that Git creates.

answered Dec 28, 2014 at 21:28

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