In the last episode (Nov 06), Matthew Bettinger said:
> 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.
>
> Some of my failed attemps...
>
> find . -exec grep -i "foo" -ok -delete {} \;
>
> find . -exec grep -l 'foo' -ok -delete {}\;
>
> find . -exec grep "foo" {}\; | xargs rm
How about something like
find . -type f | xargs grep -l foo | xargs rm
which will pipe a list of all files into "xargs grep", which will then
output only the filenames that have foo in them, which gets piped into
"xargs rm" which removes them.
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