Windows CMD Search and Delete file by name

Question

I have a website dump which has about half a gig worth of images which have been converted to various file sizes. The structure goes like:

media/
   1/
      1.original.jpg
      1.large.jpg
      1.medium.jpg
      1.small.jpg
   2/
      2.original.jpg
      2.large.jpg
      2.medium.jpg
      2.small.jpg
etc...

I want a command that will search through all folders in media and delete any image which has original in the name. Is this possible?

Maybe [this answer to "Recursively delete 0KB files using windows cmd" helps](http://stackoverflow.com/a/4177169/205233) — Filburt, May 14 '13 at 20:22

score 32 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '18 at 04:42

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del /s ...\media\*original*.jpg

should delete all files with original in their name, extension .jpg from ...\media and all its subdirectories.

Obviously, use with extreme caution... If you desire to see what you are going to delete first before deleting it use

dir /s ...\media\*original*.jpg

edited Mar 12 '18 at 04:42

Daniel L. VanDenBosch

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answered May 15 '13 at 00:40

Magoo

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '13 at 21:58

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Try with something like this:

for /R C:\...\media %f in (*original*.jpg) do del /q "%~ff"

Replace % with %% if you want to use this in a batch script.

answered May 14 '13 at 21:58

Ansgar Wiechers

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Windows CMD Search and Delete file by name

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