how to delete file with matching content

[packets]

Greetings!

I have a dir with 10,000 text files and growing. Do you have a script where if the word "LINUXFORUMS" has on the body of the text file, it will automatically delete the file. I cannot get to it since I'm only familiar to BASH. Anyone have a script similar to this or any ideas how can i do this? Any links where it can direct me to this kind of script?

TIA

--linux newbie

[ghostdog74]

since you know bash, what have you done so far? a simple eg

for file in *
do
    grep "LINUXFORUMS" file > /dev/null 2>&1
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
          echo "Removing file $file"
          ## enter remove code here.
    fi
done

[packets]

thanks for the idea. I will try these one.

Anymore suggestions?

[SuSEholic]

Try this...

grep -rl 'some text' /path/to/dir | xargs -d '\n' rm

add -i for searching case-insensitive.

grep -rli 'some text' /path/to/dir | xargs -d '\n' rm

Hope this help.

[packets]

Anyone could help me on this? This a sample dunno if works

#!/bin/bash
dir=/home/user/dir

echo "Type word:"
read input
if [ $input -eq "LINUXFORUM" ]
then
grep $input $dir
! -------> This is where I want to delete the file when a word "LINUXFORUM"
has match on of the content of the file.
fi

[packets]

@Suseholic

Thanks again for the idea. I think this is a good one. I'll check on this and create a simple script and post it here

[packets]

This one did a trick. Thanks!

#!/bin/bash

echo "Please choose user:"
read input1
echo "Type a word.All spam contain this word will be deleted"
read input2
grep -rl $input2 /home/$input1/Maildir/.junkmail/new | xargs -d '\n' rm

[SuSEholic]

You did it

Thanks also for the script.