Nvidia Proprietary Video Driver -- HOW TO

[Telengard]

Re: Nvidia Proprietary Video Driver -- HOW TO

I shall adopt your command and edit the guidance accordingly ... and Thank You!

You are very welcome. I am honored that you found worth my humble contribution.

[Telengard]

Re: Nvidia Proprietary Video Driver -- HOW TO

find . -type f -name 'nvidia*' -exec zip -mT junk-nvidia-files.zip {} +

@dibl,

I put a bit more thought into it, and this will be more robust. It should prevent any potential errors from passing hundreds of very long filenames on a single command line.

sudo sh -c "find -name 'nvidia*' | zip -mT nvidia-junk.zip -@"

The sudo sh -c "..." syntax invokes sh for a single command line with super user privileges. It has to be done this way because Bash breaks unquoted pipes.

The -@ tells zip to accept the list of files from standard input instead of command line arguments

If you don't want zip to print file names then you can quiet it with the -q option.

sudo sh -c "find -name 'nvidia*' | zip -mqT nvidia-junk.zip -@"

HTH