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[Linuxcommand-discuss] how to remove "mbox.ibex" files from all subfolders?

[Mertens B. <bra...@li...>]

Hi,

I'm not sure this requires a script, but I don't know how to this using
pipes or i/O redirection...

Any help with either solution will be greatly appreciated!

I'm using Evolution 1.0.8 as my mail-client, all mail and data is store
in ~/evolution/ and its subfolders.

I would like a script or command that checks through ~/evolution
recursively and deletes all files named "mbox.ibex".

I can find the files with either:
ls lh -R evolution/ | grep ibex
or
find evolution/ -name mbox.ibex

(when I'm in my home dir off course...)

Is there a way to pass these files to rm?

I could copy the rm-commands I now used to delete them all into a script
but then I would have to edit the script every a new subfolder is
created, renamed or deleted...

TIA
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Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] how to remove "mbox.ibex" files from all subfolders?

[William S. <bs...@pa...>]

You could do it with the find command like so:

find ~/evolution -name mbox.ibex -exec rm {} \;

If you want to do this the hard way:

for i in $(find ~/evolution -name mbox.ibex); do
	echo "Deleting $i"
	rm $i
done

DISCLAMIER: I did not test this and it uses rm, so be careful!

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On 7 Nov 2002, Mertens Bram wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure this requires a script, but I don't know how to this using
> pipes or i/O redirection...
>
> Any help with either solution will be greatly appreciated!
>
> I'm using Evolution 1.0.8 as my mail-client, all mail and data is store
> in ~/evolution/ and its subfolders.
>
> I would like a script or command that checks through ~/evolution
> recursively and deletes all files named "mbox.ibex".
>
> I can find the files with either:
> ls lh -R evolution/ | grep ibex
> or
> find evolution/ -name mbox.ibex
>
> (when I'm in my home dir off course...)
>
> Is there a way to pass these files to rm?
>
> I could copy the rm-commands I now used to delete them all into a script
> but then I would have to edit the script every a new subfolder is
> created, renamed or deleted...
>
> TIA
> --
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>
>
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Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] how to remove "mbox.ibex" files from all subfolders?

[Mertens B. <bra...@li...>]

Thx,

After reading your suggestion I checked with my "Linux in a nutshell"
for some more info on the -exec and found the -ok option, which
basically does the same but asks the users to confirm (much like the -i
option of rm).

> find ~/evolution -name mbox.ibex -exec rm {} \;

so I guess I'll use:
find ~/evolution -name mbox.ibe -ok rm {} \;

Thx a lot!

Regards
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