Terminal Tip: Delete Those Mac Dot Files

Jason Johnson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:40:32 +0000

Unzipping/untaring an archive that was created on a Mac can produce a lot of ._blah and .DS_Store files. Rid yourself of them with:

find . \( -name '._*' -o -name '.DS_Store' \) -exec rm {} \;

or, if you’re using GNU find (e.g. on Ubuntu) you can use -delete:

find . \( -name '._*' -o -name '.DS_Store' \) -delete

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