To delete all .bak files, here's the commands: $ cd top_level_dir $ find . -name "*.bak" -type f -delete If you're afraid of deleting other files, do a dry run first: $ find . -name "*.bak" -type f -delete Finally, when you want to delete all the junk and keep only .tex, .bib and .pdf files, here's the commands: $ cd top_level_dir $ find . -name "*.bak" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.log" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.out -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.xml" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.pdfsync" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.gz" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.toc" -type f -delete Bibliography and index related files $ find . -name "*.blg" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.bcf" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.bbl" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.idx" -type f -delete Beamer files $ find . -name "*.nav" -type f -delete $ find . -name "*.snm" -type f -delete Or just put all the command in a script file clean.sh, then run $ source clean.sh  |
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