Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:24:19 -0600 From: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger@championelevators.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: simple find command Message-ID: <200211061124.25334.mbettinger@championelevators.com>
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Hello,
I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its=
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so maybe someone can help me out here.=20
I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search throu=
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and delete every file that contains the word foo.
Some of my failed attemps...
find . -exec grep -i "foo" -ok -delete {} \;
find . -exec grep -l 'foo' -ok -delete {}\;
find . -exec grep "foo" {}\; | xargs rm
Thanks for any help.
Matt=20
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