linux rm find concatenate

[shbk]

i want something like:


sudo rm -r < sudo find / -name rhythm*


or i may do:



sudo find / -name rhythm* > rhyth.txt
rm -r < rhyth.txt


i.e. i want to find some files and delete them automatically.
but i don't know syntax.
how to do this?

[Irithori]

find <PATH> -type f -name "rhythm"

Two notes:
1) You will need to replace <PATH>. It is not necessary to use / unless these rhyth files were scattered all over the filesystem.
2) If the above command provides a list, that you can verify, then run it again and add a -delete

[shbk]

thanks
works fine but tooo slow :
sudo find / -name rhythm* -delete,


how to do this with rm?

i.e. i want that rm reads list of files for deletion:
rm -r < rhyth.2

[Mudgen]

Can be done in one line, but if I already have the list in a file I usually do something like

cat rhyth.2|while
read file
do
rm -r $file
done

Make sure it's what you want to do first, there's no "unrm". Not easily, anyway.

[woutoo]

I think what you are looking for is the backtick to immedeately concatenate:

sudo rm -r `find / -name rhythm*`

[Mudgen]

I think what you are looking for is the backtick to immedeately concatenate:

sudo rm -r `find / -name rhythm*`

Which will work fine as long as the backticked argument list doesn't get too long. Hence my tendency to use the for loop.

[Schmidt]

Why do not use pipes?...

find <find args> | rm <rm args>

[svenw]

find . -type f -name rhythm\* -print0 | xargs -0 rm

That will bypass any "max arguments list" encountered by the backtick method. It will alow allow xargs to work on files found in paths with spaces in them, e.g.

/home/user/documents/old stuff/rhythmbox.txt

[Mudgen]

^Bingo. And if you have the list already in a file
xargs -0 rm < file

[alf55]

thanks
works fine but tooo slow :
sudo find / -name rhythm* -delete,


how to do this with rm?

i.e. i want that rm reads list of files for deletion:
rm -r < rhyth.2

To speed "find" up you need less files on your drive or narrow the search to a subtree.

If you have the list of files to be deleted then you can do:

 cat rhyth.2 | xargs rm