On Sun, 19 May 2002 17:36:28 -0400 Kirtis B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was hoping that it'd be something simpler than that. For example > could i use ls grep and rm together to search for all the files that end > in .mp3 and are less than 500k and then delete them? I'm certain there > is a way to do this, i just don't really know how to string the commands > together properly and i don't want to accidently delete my entire mp3 > collection. =) > > KIRT Hi, You could do a find, then pass the results on to rm: find /path -type f -iname '*.mp3' -size -500k | xargs rm If you have spaces in your filenames, though, that can be a problem. I'd write the results of find to a file: find /path -type f -iname '*.mp3' -size -500k > deletelist then read the lines and remove each file (don't know if you can do this as a one-liner): #!/bin/bash for mp3 in `cat deletelist` do rm $mp3 done exit HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. (Robert Frost)
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