Re: [suse-programming-e] find a word in a file then rm the file

16 Nov 2004

      -- "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@HiWAAY.net>
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Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
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Hi,
I need to find a word in a file then remove it. I'm doing the following,
but with no luck, thanks.
'find /var/spool/mqueue/ -type f|xargs grep toulon -exec rm {} \;'
faster way to delete the files:

	find . -type f | xargs grep -l $word | xargs rm -fv;

exec will fork once for each word.

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