How to delete all the files with a certain extension from a folder and all of its subfolders?

Question

I want to remove all the .jpg files from my Music folder in order to save room. My Music folder contains subfolders, and I would like to know if there is a command to remove all the .jpg files from all these folders regardless of their level. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

The easiest way (if you are using Ubuntu Desktop):

Go to your Music folder in Nautilus, press Ctrl+F and search for .jpg.

& then delete it

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You can also change the location and you can make your search more specific.

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Updated

Be More specific after searching .jpg Clicking on green button Select File type Picture & then remove jpg from search only . dot & then reload as shown in pic below

What it does it will search Picture file like .jpg .png .gif & all other file which are in Picture Format

Answer 2

A quick and clean solution for the command line would be

cd <dir>
find . -type f -iname \*.jpg -delete

• -iname makes the search case insensitiv.
• -type f tells find only to look for files.
• -delete tells find to delete/remove all files found.

I recommend running the command without -delete first to get a list of the files that will be removed when -delete is included in the command. This way a small typo won't delete anything you didn't intend to.

For more information on how to use find and what it can do see man find

Note that find will not produce any output when -delete is used.

Answer 3

This should do it

sudo rm -rf -d ~/Music/*.JPG

which will remove all .JPG files within the Music folder.