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7.4

Delete multiple directories with large amount of files.

Asked by pda4me in Linux

Tags: delete, large, multiple, files, directories

I have a series of directories under a single folder called Photos. The directories under "Photos" are called folder1, folder2, folder3 and folder4. I need to be able to delete all the .jpg files under each subfolder. Ideally I would like to keep the directory structure in place.

There are a large amount of .jpg files under each sub directory causing a Argument List Too Long error. I have been able to get this command to remove jpg files once I cd into each sub directory:

find . -name '*jpg' | xargs rm

My question is it possible to have a single command I can run to remove the .jpg from all the subdirectories without having to cd and enter the command in each sub?

Can you please provide a sample command line to enter using the info above?

Thanks in advance!

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