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Bob Yoplait
Asked: 2013-01-18 12:55:00 +0800 CST

How do I remove files as a result of the find command?

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I want to rm all the files that I get when I run 

find search-3S-beta |grep "\.log\."

What would be the command?

bash

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Find can do the deletion for you using the -delete option. Combining the rest of your command into a single find line, this will become:

    find search-3S-beta -name '*.log.*' -delete
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