find and rm commands

[jwmw1023]

hello,

I am trying to use find and remove to get rid of known viruses by name. I am using: # find [path] -iname "file name" --exec rm -vi {} \;, and this works perfect, BUT, how do i ask for more than one file name? like # find [path] -iname "file one" "file 2" --exec rm -vi {} \; i am not sure how to do the syntax right. this one does not work

[fernape]

You can write the name of all the files that you want to delete or (better) you can write a regular expression to match all that files.

Best Regards

[jwmw1023]

thanks for the help but i tried that and i cant get the syntax down. could you write an example out to go by? thank you

[likwid]

Make a file called testfile containing the names of the virii, each on their own line. I did this in a small little test directory to make sure it worked for you. I couldn't get rm interactively, and --exec gave me predicate errors... Anywho, after this command you will have all the files in a quarantine directory anyways. Once they're there, you can do whatever you want. Sorry if it's kinda dirty lol

cat test/testfile.txt | xargs -i[replace] find ./test -iname [replace] | xargs -i[replace] mv [replace] ./test/quarantine

[jwmw1023]

thanks for all the help!