如何删除具有特定名称的所有子目录中的所有文件？

Question

I have been trying to use the command line to delete all files in all subdirectories with the name s_1_1102_c.jpg.

This question is similar to what I need How to remove folders with a certain name but it is removing directories and I only want to delete the files with the name s_1_1102_c.jpg.

I will need to remove this file from 260 subdirectories under the L001 directory. My directory structure is like this:

L001
    C5.1
        s_1_1101_a.jpg
        s_1_1101_c.jpg
        s_1_1101_g.jpg
        s_1_1101_t.jpg
        s_1_1102_a.jpg
        s_1_1102_c.jpg
        s_1_1102_g.jpg
        s_1_1102_t.jpg
        s_1_1103_a.jpg
        s_1_1103_c.jpg
        s_1_1103_g.jpg
        s_1_1103_t.jpg
    C6.1
        s_1_1101_a.jpg
        s_1_1101_c.jpg
        s_1_1101_g.jpg
        s_1_1101_t.jpg
        s_1_1102_a.jpg
        s_1_1102_c.jpg
        s_1_1102_g.jpg
        s_1_1102_t.jpg
        s_1_1103_a.jpg
        s_1_1103_c.jpg
        s_1_1103_g.jpg
        s_1_1103_t.jpg

Ultimately I need to remove several files from all subdirectories (s_1_1101_g.jpg, s_1_1101_t.jpg, s_1_1102_a.jpg, s_1_1102_c.jpg, s_1_1102_g.jpg, s_1_1102_t.jpg). So maybe there is a way to provide a list of the file names I need to delete.

How can I delete these files?

Answer 1

find . -name "s_1_1102_c.jpg" -exec rm -f {} \;

Note: This will find and delete the file in any subdirectory of the current one. So you could execute it in L001 or wherever else you want to do this.

Answer 2

for i in s_1_1101_g.jpg s_1_1101_t.jpg s_1_1102_a.jpg s_1_1102_c.jpg s_1_1102_g.jpg s_1_1102_t.jpg; do
  echo rm L001/*/"$i";
done

If output looks fine, remove echo .

Answer 3

The final method I used to delete my files was given by @Peter - Reinstate Monica

for f in s_1_1101_t.jpg s_1_1102_a.jpg s_1_1102_c.jpg s_1_1102_g.jpg s_1_1102_t.jpg s_1_1103_a.jpg s_1_1103_c.jpg s_1_1103_g.jpg s_1_1103_t.jpg s_1_1104_a.jpg s_1_1104_c.jpg s_1_1104_g.jpg s_1_1104_t.jpg s_1_2101_g.jpg s_1_2101_t.jpg s_1_2102_a.jpg s_1_2102_c.jpg s_1_2102_g.jpg s_1_2102_t.jpg s_1_2103_a.jpg s_1_2103_c.jpg s_1_2103_g.jpg s_1_2103_t.jpg s_1_2104_g.jpg s_1_2104_t.jpg; do find /hpc/home/L001 -name $f -delete; done

I was concerned that my file list would be too long but it worked in this situation.

Answer 4

With bash :

echo rm L001/*/{s_1_1101_g.jpg,s_1_1101_t.jpg,s_1_1102_a.jpg,s_1_1102_c.jpg,s_1_1102_g.jpg,s_1_1102_t.jpg}

or

shopt -s globstar
echo rm **/{s_1_1101_g.jpg,s_1_1101_t.jpg,s_1_1102_a.jpg,s_1_1102_c.jpg,s_1_1102_g.jpg,s_1_1102_t.jpg}

If output looks fine, remove echo .