On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:52:55 -0400 Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Thank you sir! -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639
