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Old 07-21-2011
I'm trying to remove all mp3's in subdirectories
My company has a policy that employees can't keep music on our servers so im looking for a line or script that I can run as part of a cron job that will remove all mp3's in the users home directories.

Does anyone have any idea how I might accomplish this?
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Old 07-21-2011
Code:
find /home -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \;

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Old 07-21-2011
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Originally Posted by bartus11
Code:
find /home -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \;

Thanks for that. Would it be possible to add a second variable to that line? For example if I wanted to remove all MP3's and WAV's?
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Old 07-21-2011
Code:
find /home -type f \( -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.wav" \) -exec rm -f {} \;

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