sperrgebiet's world » Bash http://www.sperrgebiet.org penguins (and ducks) are friends, no food Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:59:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Find and delete files with specific content http://www.sperrgebiet.org/2009/07/find-and-delete-files-with-specific-content/ http://www.sperrgebiet.org/2009/07/find-and-delete-files-with-specific-content/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:49:58 +0000 Hans http://www.sperrgebiet.org/blog/?p=11 Ever wanted to deleted (or move, copy, what else) all files in a directory? It’s quite easy:

egrep -l NEEDLE * | xargs rm

This command will find all files with NEEDLE in it, pipes the filename (that’s because we need the parameter L) to xargs which then use the STDIN (our filename) and put’s it to rm.

Just play around with it the possible parameters. It would save you a lot of time.

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