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I am trying to delete erroneous emails based on finding the email address in the file via Linux CLI. I can get the files with find . | xargs grep -l email@domain.com But I cannot figure out how to delete them from there as the following code doesn't work. rm -f | xargs find . | xargs grep -l email@domain.com Thank you for your assistance. For safety I normally pipe the output from find to something like awk and create a batch file with each line being "rm filename" That way you can check it before actually running it and manually fix any odd edge cases that are difficult to do with a regex

From terminal window: When I use the rm command it can only remove files. When I use the rmdir command it only removes empty folders. If I have a directory nested with files and folders within folders with files and so on, is there any way to delete all the files and folders without all the strenuous command typing? If it makes a difference, I am using the mac bash shell from terminal, not Microsoft DOS or linux. rm -rf some_dir -r "recursive" -f "force" (suppress confirmation messages) Be careful! rm -rf * Would remove everything (folders & files) in the current directory. But be careful!

I have unfortunately deleted some important files and folders using 'rm -R ' command in Linux server. Is there any way to recover? since answers are disappointing I would like suggest a way in which I got deleted stuff back. I use an ide to code and accidently I used rm -rf from terminal to remove complete folder. Thanks to ide I recoved it back by reverting the change from ide's local history. (my ide is intelliJ but all ide's support history backup) Short answer: You can't. rm r e m oves files blindly, with no concept of 'trash'. Some Unix and Linux systems try to limit its destructive

sorry if this is a noobie question but I can't find a good answer. To find then remove something I can use find . -name ".txt" -exec rm "{}" \; But why can't I just pipe the results to rm like find . -name ".txt" | rm like I would pipe it to grep find . -name ".txt" | grep a I've read from somewhere that rm doesn't take input from stdin and therefore I can't pipe it but what does that mean? When I type in rm a.txt it reads from standard input just like I can grep right? Or is there a difference between stdin and command line. Help! Tim Pierce To expand on @Alex Gitelman's answer: yes, there's

This question already has an answer here: How to delete many 0 byte files in linux? 10 answers How do I delete a certain file in linux if its size is 0. I want to execute this in an crontab without any extra script. l filename.file | grep 5th-tab | not eq 0 | rm Something like this? This will delete all the files in a directory (and below) that are size zero. find /tmp -size 0 -print0 |xargs -0 rm -- If you just want a particular file; if [ ! -s /tmp/foo ] ; then rm /tmp/foo fi James.Xu you would want to use find : find . -size 0 -delete To search and delete empty files in the current

I'm trying to work out a command which deletes sql files older than 15 days. The find part is working but not the rm. rm -f | find -L /usr/www2/bar/htdocs/foo/rsync/httpdocs/db_backups -type f \( -name '*.sql' \) -mtime +15 It kicks out a list of exactly the files I want deleted but is not deleting them. The paths are correct. usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file /usr/www2/bar/htdocs/foo/rsync/httpdocs/db_backups/20120601.backup.sql ... /usr/www2/bar/htdocs/foo/rsync/httpdocs/db_backups/20120610.backup.sql What am I doing wrong? You are actually piping rm 's output to the input