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Hi Richard, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi All > > I am cleaning up a load of photos and I have found there seems to be a > lot of .json files in amongst all the photos. Is it possible to write > a terminal search of a folder and all it's sub-folders that will clear > out all the json files please? > > Thanks > > Rich > -- > Kind Regards > Richard Brown > Learning the unforced rhythms of grace > https://gwyls.co.uk/ > https://gucu.org.uk/ I would approach this problem with the `find` command. You want all the JSON files to be removed, so I would run this command *in* the folder - do not run it outside of this folder, as it will clear all files that have the .json extension. The command I propose is: `find ./ -type f -iname '*.json' -print -delete` This will recursively find all files that have the .json extension, and delete them, whilst *also* printing each file to the console. You can omit `-print` if you do not want that to happen. The `-iname` part matches all .json files that might have capital letters in them as well, but if they don't, you can just use `-name` instead :-) (Disclaimer: running this command is at your *own risk*, and I do not take liability for any unintentional data loss because of it. I recommend making a backup of the photo folder first.) I'm interested though, are these photos from just a camera? Never really seen photos accompanied with a JSON file as well. Might be metadata.. though... I hope this helps. -- Sincerely, Dom Rodriguez (shymega/dzr). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq