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Revision: 2034
at December 20, 2006 10:20 by Roshambo
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find / -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm '{}' \;
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Remove all those annoying thumbnail files that Windows users created while browsing your network drive. This command traverses all directories and deletes all "Thumbs.db" files as it finds them.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Find and delete all Thumbs.db files

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Bash, unix, find

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Bash