Delete those pesky ".DS_Store" files [closed]

Question

If you use OS X then you might be familiar with the infamous hidden ".DS_Store" files that are produced as a result of using Finder.

The challenge is to write code that will go through the entire file system and delete any file named ".DS_Store".

Classic code golf - shortest code wins.

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Clarifications:

• The code does not need to delete any .DS_Store files that require superuser; assume no such files exist.

• The code should only delete the relevant .DS_Store files and nothing else.

Answer 1

zsh, 19

rm -f /**/.DS_Store

(Make that 16 if it's ok to leave out -f.)

Answer 2

Bash*, 40 30

find / -name .DS_Store -delete

find / -name .DS_Store -exec rm -f {} \;

This should handle it (not very golfed, not.to.mention marvelously slow). Bash seems right because we don't have to deal with any "import system" nonsense. If you want to require execution in any environment, add 4 chars for bash and 1 for a line feed.

*any shell I guess, just can't get out of the habit assuming the bourne again shell is the only one.

Answer 3

Ruby: 38 33 characters

File.delete *Dir['/**/.DS_Store']

Answer 4

fish, 16

rm /**/.DS_Store

(Make that 19 if -f is required to delete .DS_Store in read-only directories.)

Answer 5

Shell, 25

locate .DS_Store|xargs rm

Requires working locate database.

Answer 6

Python 3, 80 bytes

import os
d='.DS_Store'
for r,_,f in os.walk('/'):
 if d in f:os.remove(r+'/'+d)

Try it online!

By no means competable, but just for the sake of it :)

Answer 7

CMD, 17

del/s "/.DS_Store

Pretty straight-forward.

/s is required for searching within subdirectories as well.
" is used to escape the / char which would otherwise be interpreted as an (invalid) argument.

Answer 8

find, 38

The previus find solution is plain wrong: it's mean to delete everything named .DS_Store including directory, links, special file etc.

But:

find / -type f -name .DS_Store -delete

it's the minimal solution using find.

DISCLAMER: I strongly advice against really using this solution on a real *nix box: trying to delete something recursively from / is a very bad idea. You are warned.

EDIT :

If the differences among files, directorys, links (hard and symbolic), named pipes, sockets, special files, pseudo-file systems is not clear to you, I suggest to google some of this unknown terms. You'll be surprise, wiser, and less prone to (catstrofic) errors.

EDIT2 : Even more relevant : the OP wrote "The code should only delete the relevant .DS_Store files and nothing else." : so, if someone care to read the boring requirements, all solutions that remove more than this files hare funny, smart, ect. but wrong.