Comments on: Linux or Unix find and remove files with one find command on fly

By: Asghar Ali

Asghar Ali — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:11:26 +0000

Thanks Dude! I really need it.

By: vijay

vijay — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:39:47 +0000

how to delete only c & java programs in red hat linux….

By: Question

Question — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:34:45 +0000

is there supposed to be a space before -exec in the example?
find . -type f -name “FILE-TO-FIND” -exec rm -f {} \;

By: Basil

Basil — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:17:15 +0000

How can check and redirect to a single file with the file names that contains the certain string of text? For example:

If my files abc.txt, aaa.txt and bbb.txt where both aaa and bbb contains ERROR, and abc not. I need to point out the names aaa.txt and bbb.txt to another file ccc.txt…

Just to name a few, but there might be others. I need a bash script to do this.
Am searching for a solution from a week…:(

By: beli

beli — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:04:25 +0000

Thanks!

By: rangga

rangga — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:24:41 +0000

can we combine locate with rm ?

thanks

By: surreyian

surreyian — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:25:06 +0000

thanks

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:47:20 +0000

Add semicolon (;) to command:
find . -name “find name” -exec rm {}\ ;

By: surreyian

surreyian — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:30:46 +0000

i tried to use the command to find and delete files

find . -name “find name” -exec rm {}\

but the return message is missing argument to ‘-exec’

what have I done wrong?

By: Badtz

Badtz — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:47:10 +0000

For instance

/bin/rm: Argument list too long
-bash-3.2$ ls -l | wc -l
161995
-bash-3.2$ find . -delete
-bash-3.2$

By: Badtz

Badtz — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:42:19 +0000

-delete will also work in a directory with say… hundreds of thousands of files, -exec rm -rf will crash.

By: Bruce Jenkins

Bruce Jenkins — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:24:51 +0000

Thanks for the code Riley! I have been looking for something like this.

By: TheRiley

TheRiley — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:14:35 +0000

this culls directories older than 10 days:

find /somePath -type d -name ‘someNamePrefix*’ -mtime +10 -print | xargs rm -rf ;

By: Chethan

Chethan — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:14:15 +0000

#include

int main()
{
execl(“/bin/rm”, “rm”, “-f”, “/home/cc/rr* “, (char*)0);
printf(“end”);
return 0;
}

In the above program, I want to delete all file /home/cc/rr*. With above program it is not working, I mean it is not deleting. Please help.

By: liveD

liveD — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:29:11 +0000

find . -type f -name “FILE-TO-FIND” -delete;

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:15:50 +0000

Fantastic tips. These helped me create some commands to add to my ~/.bash_logout file to perform file/directory cleanup on logout. Cheers!

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:49:41 +0000

Did you ever find a solution to this problem. If so please let me know the details because I have the exact same issue. Thank you.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:58:45 +0000

Very nice find. Had a bunch of music I copied over from my Mac that had Ableton files in them which weren’t needed on my laptop.

Quick way of getting rid of them.

Thanks a bunch.

By: lupht

lupht — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:51:58 +0000

Kiran:

Try the -ignore_readdir_race option

By: Roshan

Roshan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:24:53 +0000

How to override after find command?
Note :i know find command but dont know how to combine these operations.
cat “I’m repled content” > test.zip .
ex:
1> i have to find files with name “*test*.*” and replace the content of the file with “I’m replaced content”.
2> find the file with size more than 10mb and replace the content of the file with “I’m replaced content”.