Anyone know a bit a "terminal bash magic" command line to clean all this files on all a files tree recursively ?

I collected a lot of autosave and ~ files ( witch is nice and secure from Krita ) and I'm open to all solution of easy/lasy cleaning.

see http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix ... ove-files/ & http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ns-261595/ obviously test using the -print option to ensure the multiple pattens work

test with

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find . \( -name "*.autosave" -o -name "*~"  \) -print

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find . \( -name "*.autosave" -o -name "*~"  \) -exec rm -rf {} \;

find -name "*autosave" | xargs rm & find -name "*~" | xargs rm

or

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find . \( -name "*.autosave" -o -name "*~"  \) -delete

never saw the -delete option referenced before but it is included in the man page

Thanks to both. That worked great, and I could get a direction to look at and learn from the man page. A lot of time saved ( and 8 GB ! ) , and a clean result.

I finally used this , mixing both of your posts :

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find -name "*~" -delete
find -name "*autosave" -delete


and had the comfort to saw if all was ok before with :

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find -name "*~" -print
find -name "*autosave" -print