Gsyfuy

Redundant comparison & "if" before assignment

Why did the EU agree to delay the Brexit deadline?

Which one is correct as adjective “protruding” or “protruded”?

Pre-mixing cryogenic fuels and using only one fuel tank

Multiplicative persistence

What does routing an IP address mean?

What is this called? Old film camera viewer?

How do I color the graph in datavisualization?

Store Credit Card Information in Password Manager?

Is it possible to have a strip of cold climate in the middle of a planet?

Offered money to buy a house, seller is asking for more to cover gap between their listing and mortgage owed

2.8 Why are collections grayed out? How can I open them?

What is this cable/device?

The IT department bottlenecks progress. How should I handle this?

Does an advisor owe his/her student anything? Will an advisor keep a PhD student only out of pity?

Biological Blimps: Propulsion

What should you do if you miss a job interview (deliberately)?

Should I stop contributing to retirement accounts?

Is it improper etiquette to ask your opponent what his/her rating is before the game?

Why does the Sun have different day lengths, but not the gas giants?

If a character has darkvision, can they see through an area of nonmagical darkness filled with lightly obscuring gas?

Electoral considerations aside, what are potential benefits, for the US, of policy changes proposed by the tweet recognizing Golan annexation?

The screen of my macbook suddenly broken down how can I do to recover

A social experiment. What is the worst that can happen?

How do I find all files that end with a dot

Find all files on the filesystem that I have edited or createdHow to find all the files related to a software?Find all files modified by a specific userHow to recover files lost in Xubuntu installation?Cant delete folders with files in it:Find all files with specific extensions that contains a stringHow to remove files with no permission?How to delete all ._ files?Delete all files with a patternHow to clear all files in a folder ending with `.log`?

1

How do I find all files that end with a "." (dot) and then delete them? Is there a program that can do this?

Example:

Desktop DB.
mp600osxpd542ej7.

files

share|improve this question

asked 3 hours ago

Kathryn TrucanoKathryn Trucano

61

New contributor

Kathryn Trucano is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  find -name *. -delete maybe
  
  – guiverc
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I would to list the files first so that I don't delete something that I want to keep.
  
  – Kathryn Trucano
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I would never run a command like that first time with a -delete option; run it without the delete so it just finds the files, and you can peruse the files it will delete, then only when happy add the -delete option). find finds files by name, date, permissions or anything, but you can also tell it to execute something for each file, delete them etc. It's a standard *nix command from 1978
  
  – guiverc
  3 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Do you need this to delete plain files only - or directories as well? does it need to be recursive or just files at one directory level?
  
  – steeldriver
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

1

How do I find all files that end with a "." (dot) and then delete them? Is there a program that can do this?

Example:

Desktop DB.
mp600osxpd542ej7.

files

share|improve this question

asked 3 hours ago

Kathryn TrucanoKathryn Trucano

61

New contributor

Kathryn Trucano is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  find -name *. -delete maybe
  
  – guiverc
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I would to list the files first so that I don't delete something that I want to keep.
  
  – Kathryn Trucano
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I would never run a command like that first time with a -delete option; run it without the delete so it just finds the files, and you can peruse the files it will delete, then only when happy add the -delete option). find finds files by name, date, permissions or anything, but you can also tell it to execute something for each file, delete them etc. It's a standard *nix command from 1978
  
  – guiverc
  3 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Do you need this to delete plain files only - or directories as well? does it need to be recursive or just files at one directory level?
  
  – steeldriver
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

How do I find all files that end with a "." (dot) and then delete them? Is there a program that can do this?

Example:

Desktop DB.
mp600osxpd542ej7.

files

share|improve this question

asked 3 hours ago

Kathryn TrucanoKathryn Trucano

61

New contributor

Kathryn Trucano is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

share|improve this question

asked 3 hours ago

Kathryn TrucanoKathryn Trucano

61

New contributor

Kathryn Trucano is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

share|improve this question

asked 3 hours ago

Kathryn TrucanoKathryn Trucano

61

New contributor

Kathryn Trucano is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

asked 3 hours ago

Kathryn TrucanoKathryn Trucano

61

New contributor

Kathryn Trucano is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

asked 3 hours ago

Kathryn TrucanoKathryn Trucano

61

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

2

The following cmd will do:

find . -type f -name '*.' -exec rm -i {} ;

cmd explanation:

• 
  find: the utility we used to search for files and perform actions on them.


• 
  -type f:that makes sure that we find files only


• 
  -name '*.': that tell find to pick up files with names that match the pattern, which has a wildcard *, that matches any number of characters, followed by the dot we're looking for.
  
  note that we quoted the pattern, this is important to avoid the expansion of the wildcard by the shell.


• 
  -exec: that tells find to perform the following action on the files that have been found.


• 
  rm -i {}: the cmd rm -i removes files interactively, which means that it will ask you any time, it wants to delete a file, that's a good option if you want to check your files one by one before deletion, otherwise you can omit the option -i.
  
  the curly braces are placeholders for the files found by find.


• finally we end the command executed by find with an escaped semicolon ;
  

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

HElanabiHElanabi

292

New contributor

HElanabi is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

add a comment | 

0

find -name "*." -delete

find will locate files named pattern '*.' (ie. end in a dot) & delete them. The use of -delete also implies -depth too, but adjust to your needs.

Quotes added as I'd forgotten, thanks @steeldriver

share|improve this answer

edited 3 hours ago

answered 3 hours ago

guivercguiverc

5,02121623

add a comment | 

Your Answer

StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "89"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});

function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});


}
});

Kathryn Trucano is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Sign up using Google

Sign up using Facebook

Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2faskubuntu.com%2fquestions%2f1128144%2fhow-do-i-find-all-files-that-end-with-a-dot%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

2

The following cmd will do:

find . -type f -name '*.' -exec rm -i {} ;

cmd explanation:

• 
  find: the utility we used to search for files and perform actions on them.


• 
  -type f:that makes sure that we find files only


• 
  -name '*.': that tell find to pick up files with names that match the pattern, which has a wildcard *, that matches any number of characters, followed by the dot we're looking for.
  
  note that we quoted the pattern, this is important to avoid the expansion of the wildcard by the shell.


• 
  -exec: that tells find to perform the following action on the files that have been found.


• 
  rm -i {}: the cmd rm -i removes files interactively, which means that it will ask you any time, it wants to delete a file, that's a good option if you want to check your files one by one before deletion, otherwise you can omit the option -i.
  
  the curly braces are placeholders for the files found by find.


• finally we end the command executed by find with an escaped semicolon ;
  

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

HElanabiHElanabi

292

New contributor

HElanabi is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

add a comment | 

2

The following cmd will do:

find . -type f -name '*.' -exec rm -i {} ;

cmd explanation:

• 
  find: the utility we used to search for files and perform actions on them.


• 
  -type f:that makes sure that we find files only


• 
  -name '*.': that tell find to pick up files with names that match the pattern, which has a wildcard *, that matches any number of characters, followed by the dot we're looking for.
  
  note that we quoted the pattern, this is important to avoid the expansion of the wildcard by the shell.


• 
  -exec: that tells find to perform the following action on the files that have been found.


• 
  rm -i {}: the cmd rm -i removes files interactively, which means that it will ask you any time, it wants to delete a file, that's a good option if you want to check your files one by one before deletion, otherwise you can omit the option -i.
  
  the curly braces are placeholders for the files found by find.


• finally we end the command executed by find with an escaped semicolon ;
  

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

HElanabiHElanabi

292

New contributor

HElanabi is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

add a comment | 

The following cmd will do:

find . -type f -name '*.' -exec rm -i {} ;

cmd explanation:

• 
  find: the utility we used to search for files and perform actions on them.


• 
  -type f:that makes sure that we find files only


• 
  -name '*.': that tell find to pick up files with names that match the pattern, which has a wildcard *, that matches any number of characters, followed by the dot we're looking for.
  
  note that we quoted the pattern, this is important to avoid the expansion of the wildcard by the shell.


• 
  -exec: that tells find to perform the following action on the files that have been found.


• 
  rm -i {}: the cmd rm -i removes files interactively, which means that it will ask you any time, it wants to delete a file, that's a good option if you want to check your files one by one before deletion, otherwise you can omit the option -i.
  
  the curly braces are placeholders for the files found by find.


• finally we end the command executed by find with an escaped semicolon ;
  

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

HElanabiHElanabi

292

New contributor

HElanabi is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

find . -type f -name '*.' -exec rm -i {} ;

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

HElanabiHElanabi

292

New contributor

HElanabi is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

answered 2 hours ago

HElanabiHElanabi

292

New contributor

HElanabi is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

answered 2 hours ago

HElanabiHElanabi

292

0

find -name "*." -delete

find will locate files named pattern '*.' (ie. end in a dot) & delete them. The use of -delete also implies -depth too, but adjust to your needs.

Quotes added as I'd forgotten, thanks @steeldriver

share|improve this answer

edited 3 hours ago

answered 3 hours ago

guivercguiverc

5,02121623

add a comment | 

0

find -name "*." -delete

find will locate files named pattern '*.' (ie. end in a dot) & delete them. The use of -delete also implies -depth too, but adjust to your needs.

Quotes added as I'd forgotten, thanks @steeldriver

share|improve this answer

edited 3 hours ago

answered 3 hours ago

guivercguiverc

5,02121623

add a comment | 

find -name "*." -delete

find will locate files named pattern '*.' (ie. end in a dot) & delete them. The use of -delete also implies -depth too, but adjust to your needs.

Quotes added as I'd forgotten, thanks @steeldriver

share|improve this answer

edited 3 hours ago

answered 3 hours ago

guivercguiverc

5,02121623

share|improve this answer

edited 3 hours ago

answered 3 hours ago

guivercguiverc

5,02121623

answered 3 hours ago

guivercguiverc

5,02121623

answered 3 hours ago

guivercguiverc

5,02121623