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I have a very vital folder that is being "infested" with unknown files. The 500,000+ files have HEXadecimal Names and most of them are 0 bytes each. This is how the files names look like.

:
08/28/2019  04:20 PM                 0 70F55530
08/28/2019  09:00 PM                 0 70F55630
08/28/2019  04:37 PM                 0 70F56530
08/28/2019  04:55 PM                 0 70F57530
08/28/2019  09:34 PM                 0 70F57630
08/28/2019  05:12 PM                 0 70F58530
08/28/2019  09:52 PM                 0 70F58630
:

I did a virus scan but found nothing. Incidentally, my original files are still in the folder.

I have tried deleting the strange files via git-bash:

find . -type f -name "[0-9]*" -delete

and also

find . -type f ! -name "*.*" -delete

but it takes so long.

I'm not sure of the regex to use and I don't want to delete my real files and folders. Is there a faster way of removing only those files with the hexadecimal names?

Drk
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