[thelist] find

[ben morrison]

how about using * although not sure about CASE sensitivity, probably a flag
on find maybe?

find . -name *whatever* -exec rm {} \;

you can also pipe the response and use xargs to remove

find . -name *whatever* | xargs rm

A quick search on case :


GNU find has a case-insensitive option '-iname', however
other 'finds' don't have it and we have to make do with
the [..] constructs.e.g., to search for all files ending in
.pdf/.PDF/.pDf/... etc.
find . \( -name '*.[pP][dD][fF]' -o -name '.*.[pP][dD][fF]' \) -print

Ben

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:

> find . -name whatever -exec rm {} \;
>
> That works to delete all files called 'whatever'. What are the wildcard
> options with find to find names like whatever as in:
>
> abc.whatever
> whatever-xyz
> def_WHATever
>
> Thx, Bob
>
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