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.
[...]

  find . -name "*foo*" -exec rm {} \;

  find . -name "*foo*" -print | xargs rm

  find . -name "*foo*" -delete  //the fastest one

-- 
0A 0D 0A 2D 2D 20 0D 0A 44 6F 6D 69 6E 69 6B 20  ...-- ..Dominik 
4C 75 70 69 6E 73 6B 69 20 2F 2F 20 79 68 70 78  Lupinski // yhpx
40 61 6C 70 68 61 2E 6E 65 74 2E 70 6C 0D 0A 2E  @alpha.net.pl...

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