Chris wrote:
> How would I script removing a file (globally) ?
Very carefully. :)
> Meaning, say the file name test however, it's in multiple
> directories throughout the system without having to go into each dir
> manually.
This would find any file named test and remove it, by trawling the
filesystem:
$ find / -name test | xargs rm
If the file you want to find has spaces or other odd characters in it,
you may need to use:
$ find / -name test -print0 | xargs -0 rm
You could also use locate instead of find, which would save traversing
the filesystem, but wouldn't catch files created since the locate db
was updated last.
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