Comments on snippet: 'deleting files of certain types from the command line' Snipplr comments feed https://snipplr.com/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:41:19 +0000 therobot said on 20/Dec/2007 https://snipplr.com/view/4381/deleting-files-of-certain-types-from-the-command-line <p><p>Also, for skipping spaces in path names:</p> <p>find samba/ -iname '<em>.avi' -o -iname '</em>.mpg' -o -iname '<em>.mov' -o -iname '</em>.wma' -o -iname '<em>.wmv' -o -iname '</em>.mpeg' | while read filename; do rm -f "$filename"; done</p> </p> Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:32:00 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/4381/deleting-files-of-certain-types-from-the-command-line