Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:58:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Todd Backman <tbackman@corp.gulf.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting files. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980425095050.8858B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980425111131.10912A-100000@marlin.corp.gulf.net>
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On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Todd Backman wrote: > How would one delete text files in a dir that contain a particular word. > > I would like to delete all files in the mailque that contain the word: > > "urgent" There's probably a cleaner way but you could use # grep -l urgent df* | sed 's/df/*/' | xargs rm You may need to escape the * or quote the whole word. Give it a try without the rm first, xarg's default is to just print the args. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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