Answer by Petter H for On Linux, how can I find all files that contain a...
I'd do what Adrian says, But I'd add word boundries arond the foo so as to not accidentaly delete files containing "food" (unless it is deleting everything containing food is what you want.) $ find...
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Here is a safe way:grep -lrIZ foo . | xargs -0 rm -f ---l prints file names of files matching the search pattern.-r performs a recursive search for the pattern foo in the given directory .. If this...
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$ find -type f -exec grep -q "foo" {} \; -exec echo rm -- {} \;This recursively searches for files containing foo. The second -exec is only run if the first exec exits successfully, i.e. if grep...
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I want to delete all files that contain the string foo. How can I do this using bash in Linux?
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