Searching for specific files then delete them

[Tony Arnold]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 13:01 +0200, Dieter Schicker wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 13:29 +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> > How can I search for specific files then delete them. I tried this but
> > no it did not work
> > 
> > find -name *~|rm
> > 
> > -- 
> > OOzy
> > Kubuntu-Dapper
> > 
> 
> find . -name *~ | xargs rm

or

find . -name *~ -exec rm {} \;

The rm command gets executed for each file found and the {} is
substituted with the file name. The \; is necessary syntax to terminate
the -exec option.

Regards,
Tony.
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