Ever just open up your local repository to commit and push some updates you forgot about, and you notice your working directory is full of .DS_Store files?

I'm writing this short article on an early morning because I have had just about enough of them! They pop out of nowhere and seriously, what are they even useful for?🙄

Because I never remember the commands to remove them and need to look it up every time, I'm putting this up as a quick personal resource.

Call it a sticky note if you will.

Steps to Take

If you're currently in a directory with un-staged changes and you spot DS_Store files with different directories, this is a quick reminder to navigate outside to the main parent directory so you can get rid of them at once.

Yeah, that happened to me and I was too frustrated to realise quickly 😬.

Commands You Can Use

1) Delete only files, exclude directories

find . -name '.DS_Store' -type f -delete

2) Delete all

find . -name '.DS_Store' -delete

Again,

• Ensure you're in the parent directory.
• It's handy for other types of files, replace the name, or type, that you want to delete.

P.S If you know a way to permanently stop its creation and you come across this post, kindly spare someone the wasted hours of scouring the internet and share.

Thanks in advance!