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I want to delete all files which have names containing a specific word, e.g. "car". So far, I came up with this:
find|grep car How do I pass the output to rm?
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1) To delete multiple files at once, use the rm command followed by the file names separated by space. This is the traditional method used by newbies. 2) To delete multiple files at once, use the brace expansion as shown below: This example deletes the given files for the month of 'September (09)' .
From the grep(1) man page: -l, --files-with-matches Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed. The scanning will stop on the first match.
find . -name '*car*' -exec rm -f {} \; or pass the output of your pipeline to xargs:
find | grep car | xargs rm -f Note that these are very blunt tools, and you are likely to remove files that you did not intend to remove. Also, no effort is made here to deal with files that contain characters such as whitespace (including newlines) or leading dashes. Be warned.
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