Bash one liner to clean out junk files from NAS

Question

I bought a 2-bay QNAP NAS that I'll put 2 x 2TB hard drives in today and load up with my files. I'll be accessing the NAS via Xubuntu/Debian and Mac machines.

I'd like someone to teach me a bash one-liner (or something similar) that will clear out some of the junk files that have accumulated over the years of multi-platform access.

These include things like:

• .ini
• thumbs.db
• .AppleDouble
• .DS_Store
• :2e*

I don't want to delete crucial metadata files, but .ini for example, I don't view as crucial and the same goes for .DS_Store.

Additionally, are there any easy ways to be proactive in the fight against spreading these junk files around? On the Mac, I did:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

a while back which should take care of future .DS_Store network spam. I'm not completely OCD but I'd like to avoid useless files where possible.

Answer 1

find path/to/nas \( -name '.ini' -o -name ':2e*' -o ... \) -exec rm -rf {} \;