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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator, Web Networks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
