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From: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger@championelevators.com>
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Subject: simple find command
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:24:19 -0600
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Hello,

I am having a bit of trouble with the find command.  I am a novice in its=
 use=20
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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