Thread: ._filenames ? Useless? Can they be removed?
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2008-08-24 , 12:57
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Originally Posted by AstroGuy View Post
My way of deleting files like these from a file system is:

rm -i `find ._*`

remove the -i if you don't want to confirm the deletion of each file, just remember there is no 'un'rm
The problem with this and some of the other methods is they are not "space" friendly. So if you have "._My Document" and "Document" it will match on the first and then rm -i ._My Document where ._My is non-existent and Document will happily delete your other file.