Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:47:58 -0500 From: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> To: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger@championelevators.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple find command Message-ID: <20021106174758.GA73328@web.ca> In-Reply-To: <200211061124.25334.mbettinger@championelevators.com> References: <200211061124.25334.mbettinger@championelevators.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:24:19AM -0600, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use > so maybe someone can help me out here. > > I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through > and delete every file that contains the word foo. > try find . -name "*foo*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm the -print0/-0 handles the filenames as null-terminated strings, so filenames with spaces, etc. are handled correctly. - rob -- Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> System Administrator, Web Networks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021106174758.GA73328>