[digiKam-users] removing orphaned xmp files under Linux

[digikam at 911networks.com]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 21:35:30 +0000
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> Do they have a suffix or at least a recognisble pattern in their
> name? If so it's dead easy using the 'find' command:-
> 
>     find <name of top level directory> -name '*.xmp'
> 
> If you want to remove the files as well:-
> 
>     find <name of top level directory> -name '*.xmp' -exec rm {} \;

I don't think so. It finds ALL the files that have an .xmp
extension, including all the files that have a raw counterpart. 

Doing the rm will delete all the xmp files

> find ~/darktable/ -name '*.xmp'|less

Here is an xmp from the find:

/home/froggy/darktable/people/photographers/photographers-2014/photographers-20141107-0363.cr2.xmp

> ls /home/froggy/darktable/people/photographers/photographers-2014/photographers-20141107-0363*

/home/froggy/darktable/people/photographers/photographers-2014/photographers-20141107-0363.cr2
/home/froggy/darktable/people/photographers/photographers-2014/photographers-20141107-0363.cr2.xmp



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