See man pages of find command.
with find command you can find out files with a particular pattern and
then pass these file to another command (like rm) for further processing.
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On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Neeraj Manral wrote:
> Hello sirs ,
> Thanks a lot for all the earlier help!
>
> Is there any commands in linux which shall remove all the files having a
> particular string in filename from all the folders in a particular directory
> .
>
> suppose the filename has a string "XYZ!@#$%" common in all the folders .
> what command should i give to del all the files in various folders under dir
> xyz
>
> Directory (xyz)
>
> folder1 folder 2 folder 3
> XYZ!@#$% XYZ!@#$% XYZ!@#$%
>
> I am not able to figure out how to use rm command with grep.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Neeraj
>
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