Find and delete all files that begin with "._"

[bulrush]

I have Sun Solaris 5.9 running C Shell. It seems that the Solaris version of find does not have all features of a POSIX find. So, it does not find files that begin with a period.

However, we have at least 1000 files that are backups of graphic files that need to be deleted, but I can't find an automated way to delete them. I'll have to do this every month or so. Plus we are running out of disk space, and do not have a budget to buy a new disk!

So, on Solaris, how can I find and remove all files that begin with "._"?

Thanks.

p.s. Solaris find also does not seem to traverse subdirs, even if I do use -depth.

I also made this script and found out that find does not traverse subdirs if a subdir is something other than ".". Here's my script:

 #/bin/csh
# Nov 2011
# Find files from current and all subdirs.
if ($#argv<2) then
    echo "Updated: Nov 30, 2011"
    echo "Usage: $0 startdir filespec"
    echo "Example: $0 mydir *.bak"
    echo "  Find all files matching filespec recursively. "
    exit 1;
endif
if !(-d $argv[1]) then
    echo "Input dir $argv[1] does not exist, or it's not a dir."
    echo " "
    exit 1;
endif
#set mydir=`pwd`
set startdir=$argv[1]
set filespec=$argv[2]
echo "Looking for $startdir $filespec"
#find $startdir -name "$filespec" -print -exec rm {} ';'
#find $argv[1] \( -name "$filespec" \) -exec echo {} ';'
find $startdir -name "$filespec" -print
#find $startdir -name "$filespec" -print | xargs rm -f 
echo "Done finding files."

This script has various ways of using find, but if I pass in a subdir name, like "mystuff", it will not find files, like *.bak, even if a .bak file exists under mystuff.

 

[jiml8]

Not sure if this syntax will work in Solaris, but here is a Linux way that doesn't use find, which should give you some ideas:

ls -alR | tr -s '[:blank:]' '\t' | cut -f 8 | grep -G ^[.][^/.] | grep [.]_