How do I remove all pyc files from a project

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I ve renamed some files in a fairly large project and want to remove the  pyc files they ve left behind  I tried the bash script    rm -r   pyc   But that doesn t recurse through the folders as I thought it would  What am I doing wrong

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find   -name    pyc  xargs rm -rf

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In current version of debian you have pyclean script which is in python-minimal package    Usage is simple   pyclean

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If you re using bash   4 0  or zsh   rm      pyc   Note that     pyc selects all  pyc files in the immediate first-level subdirectories while      pyc recursively scans the whole directory tree  As an example  foo bar qux pyc will be deleted by rm      pyc but not by     pyc   The globstar shell options must be enabled  To enable globstar   shopt -s globstar   and to check its status   shopt globstar

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find   -name    pyc  -exec rm -f

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Further  people usually want to remove all   pyc    pyo files and   pycache   directories recursively in the current directory   Command   find     grep -E     pycache     pyc   pyo      xargs rm -rf

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I used to use an alias for that     which pycclean  pycclean is aliased to  find   -name    pyc    xargs -I    rm -v

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If you want to delete all the  pyc files from the project folder   First  you have   cd  lt path to the folder gt    then find all the  pyc file and delete   find   -name    pyc -delete

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rm -r recurses into directories  but only the directories you give to rm  It will also delete those directories  One solution is   for i in    find   -name   pyc   do   rm  i done   find will find all   pyc files recursively in the current directory  and the for loop will iterate through the list of files found  removing each one

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For windows users   del  S   pyc

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Django Extension     Note  This answer is very specific to Django project that have already been using Django Extension    python manage py clean pyc   The implementation can be viewed in its source code

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Now there is a package pyclean on PyPI  which is easy to use  and cross-platform  User just need a simple command line to clean all   pycache   files in current dir  pyclean

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if you don t want  pyc anymore you can use this single line in a terminal   export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1   if you change your mind   unset PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE

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To delete all the python compiled files in current directory  find   -name  quot   pycache   quot  xargs rm -rf find   -name  quot   pyc quot  xargs rm -rf

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First run   find   -type f -name    py c o   -exec rm -f        Then add   export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1   To    profile

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You can run find   -name    pyc  -type f -delete   But use it with precaution  Run first find   -name    pyc  -type f to see exactly which files you will remove   In addition  make sure that -delete is the last argument in your command  If you put it before the -name   pyc argument  it will delete everything

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If you want remove all   pyc files and   pycache   directories recursively in the current directory   with python   import os  os popen  find     grep -E  quot    pycache     pyc   pyo   quot    xargs rm -rf     or manually with terminal or cmd   find     grep -E  quot    pycache     pyc   pyo   quot    xargs rm -rf

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Add to your    bashrc   pyclean              find   -type f -name    py co   -delete         find   -type d -name    pycache    -delete     This removes all  pyc and  pyo files  and   pycache   directories  It s also very fast   Usage is simply     cd  path to directory   pyclean

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Just to throw another variant into the mix  you can also use backquotes like this   rm  find   -name   pyc

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find   -name    pyc  -print0   xargs -0 rm   The find recursively looks for   pyc files   The xargs takes that list of names and sends it to rm   The -print0 and the -0 tell the two commands to seperate the filenames with null characters   This allows it to work correctly on file names containing spaces  and even a file name containing a new line     The solution with -exec works  but it spins up a new copy of rm for every file   On a slow system or with a great many files  that ll take too long   You could also add a couple more args   find   -iname    pyc  -print0   xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty  rm   iname adds case insensitivity  like   PYC    The no-run-if-empty keeps you from getting an error from rm if you have no such files

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find   -name    pyc  -delete  Surely the simplest

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find   -name    pyc  -delete   This is faster than    find   -name    pyc  -exec rm -rf

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full recursive  ll         pyc rm         pyc

[bash] How do I remove all .pyc files from a project?

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