Remove .AppleDouble folders on *NIX boxes

by Pascal Opitz on January 22 2009, 22:54

Quick note to myself on how to get rid of those silly .AppleDouble folders

This fails, if there's funny characters in the filenames:


find . -name '.AppleDouble' | xargs rm -Rf
xargs: unmatched single quote

Hence we need to wrap the string into quotation marks:


find . -name '.AppleDouble' -printf '"%p"\n' | xargs rm -Rf

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Of course that would work for .svn folders as well, but y'all knew that, didn't ya?

by Pascal Opitz on January 23 2009, 09:20 #
Isn't it more easy to do this: find . -name '.AppleDouble' -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' \; ???

by Marius van Witzenburg on March 5 2010, 13:02 #
solution: find . -name '.AppleDouble' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf

by Richard Whitehouse on January 11 2011, 17:01 #

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