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Alan - Vox
06-23-2002, 05:57 PM
Anyone know how to do this, i need to delete every file that grep finds.

leat
06-23-2002, 06:44 PM
Try the -l option for grep and pipe it to xargs.

grep -l PATTERN *|xargs rm -f

/len

ffeingol
06-23-2002, 06:56 PM
or

find {your find stuff here} -exec rm {} \;

Frank