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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system
Date: 24 Mar 2015 15:19:07 GMT
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On 2015-03-24, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-24, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a file at ~/.alias that contains a bunch of aliases I have
>> defined, including one to remove AppleDouble files (on one line):
>>
>> alias remove_appledoubles='find . -name ".AppleDouble" -print -exec rm
>> -rf "{}" \;'
>
> I just realized I copied the wrong alias. Oops. The above command
> looks for files named ".AppleDouble", which isn't what you want. 
>
> This is what you want instead:
>
> alias remove_appledoubles='find . -name "._*" -print -exec rm -rf "{}" \;'
>
> Or without the alias:
>
> find . -name "._*" -print -exec rm -rf "{}" \;
>
> Sorry for the confusion!

And if you want to test it to see which files it finds without actually
deleting them, just take off the -exec portion like so:

find . -name "._*" -print

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