Shell – How to delete all files with a given name in all subdirectories

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I want to delete all files with a given name in all the subdirectories of my home directory.

I tried:

rm -r file

in my home directory, but it didn't work because that file doesn't exist in that directory.

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find . -name "filename" -delete

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Just quote the directory. I use rmdir just to ensure you don't accidently delete your home directory.

rmdir "~"

For your other question (better to create a extra question for it) total means the total file size of the directory (sum of the file sizes in the output). If you use -h it will show you the size in a human readable format.

ls -lh

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