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Remove all ._* and .AppleDouble-files
Remove ._*- and .AppleDouble-files from folders.
Adapted from Torkel's comment on http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20021118060850652
Cred to hiber for suggesting adding -print0/-0 to solve whitespace issue.
See all ._*-files:
find . -name '._*' | more
Remove all ._*-files:
find . -name '._*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
See all .AppleDouble-files:
find . -name '.AppleDouble' | more
Remove all .AppleDouble-files:
find . -name '.AppleDouble' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
Remove all Thumbs.db-files:
find . -name 'Thumbs.db' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
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hiber commented Jul 11, 2012

deal with spaces in path

find . -name '._*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
find . -name '.DS_Store' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

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Nice one! Thanks :)

@NicolasGoeddel
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Just use double quotes. Then you don't need xargs:

find . -name '._*' -exec rm "{}" \;
find . -name '.DS_Store' -exec rm "{}" \;

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