find and remove files with space using find command on Linux

Question

I\'m trying to remove all thumbs.db files in a Windows partition using find command in Ubuntu:

find . -iname \"*.db\"|while rea         


        

Answer 1

First check if the first part of your command, that is:

find . -iname "*.db"

is returning anything.

If it does then you can use xargs as follows to accomplish your task:

find . -iname "*.db" | xargs rm -rfv

UPDATE: From comments, this is unsafe, specially if there are spaces in directory/file names. You will need to use -print0 / xargs -0 to make it safe.