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Hello,

There are several folders under the home directory in the Linux server. I want to delete files with .jpg extension in these folders.

What command can I use? Deleting .jpg files only.

 

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find . -name "*.jpg" | xargs rm

It will find all jpg files and remove them

 

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you try https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-how-to-find-and-remove-files/

 

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cd to the directory and run find . -name "*.jpg" find . -name "*.jpg" | xargs rm

xargs outputs the founded files to rm command and rm deletes them.

 

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Thanks for your reply guys.
For example I want to delete all .jpg files under home/xavier/ file. Is it possible that I can do it without using the find command?

 

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maxwell_tr said:

Thanks for your reply guys.
For example I want to delete all .jpg files under home/xavier/ file. Is it possible that I can do it without using the find command?

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Sure.
Go to that directory and run this:
rm *.jpg

 

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maxwell_tr said:

Thanks for your reply guys.
For example I want to delete all .jpg files under home/xavier/ file. Is it possible that I can do it without using the find command?

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Bash:

cd home/xavier/

find . -type f -iname \*.jpg -delete

 

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Thanks for your interest guys
it worked for me a lot.