Matthew Bettinger wrote:
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Hello,
I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use so maybe someone can help me out here.
I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through and delete every file that contains the word foo.
[/home/paul]:: grep -l foo * | xargs ls -l
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