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| DATE | 2001-12-19 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: [nylug-talk] easy way to delete specific type of files on disk
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Subject: [hangout] Re: [nylug-talk] easy way to delete specific type of files on disk
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find / -name "*.EML" -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
But BE CAREFUL for what you wish for.
Make a list first and see what it is
find / -name "*.EML" -print > ./discovery
Ruben
On 2001.12.19 10:31:09 -0500 Jim Suto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just wondering, is there an easy way that I can delete all the
>> files
>> with a certain extension on a file system? Someone got the nimda virus
>> on
>> their Windows PC and the SAMBA shares on our linux machine have .EML
>> files
>> all over. Anyway, my thought was to use the locate command to find all
>> the
>> files with that extension and then prepend the "rm" command to all the
>> paths
>> that came up. Some of the filenames have spaces in them so I am not sure
>> this would work or how I would have to script it. Is this the best way
>> or
>> does someone have a better idea?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
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