Find string and remove files

find /yourdir -name "*jpeg" -exec rm {} ;

bira,

How about move to "temp" directory instead of delete.
It's kind of risky to delete the files.

Thanks

bira,

I'm not trying to find the file name contains "jpeg".
I'm trying to find the string "jpeg" from inside the files.

Thanks

for i in `find /yourdir -name "*.c"`
   do
   mv $i /temp
  done

find / -type f -exec grep jpeg {} \; > /tmp/the_filenames

Run that and you should have a file in your /tmp directory with the names of all normal files containing the string jpeg.  Read that file and dispose of the files as you see fit.

Best regards

.haeger

jasonkk

   In my test i´ve used ".c".

     Below is the correct:

   for i in `find /yourdir -name "*.jpeg"`
   do
   mv $i /temp
  done

The ultimate version:

for i in `find /yourdir  -type f -exec fgrep -l jpeg {} \;`
  do
  mv $i /temp
  done

Ya, I was thinking the same thing but I thought "Naah, he'll figure it out himself...".

Let's hope that it does the trick.

best regards

.haeger

rm `grep -l jpeg *`

This command should work for you:

 rm `find . -type f -exec grep -l jpeg {} \;`

Note: the above command will delete all the file contains a
      string "jpeg" from the current dir and all the subdir
      under the current dir.
      if you just want to delete the file from the current
      dir ONLY (no subdir) then ecw's last comment is the
      answer.
      rm `grep -l jpeg *`

find . -type f -exec grep -l jpeg {} \; |awk '{print "mv "$1" /temp/"$1}'|sh
# works for any amount of found files