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01-05-2006, 07:01 PM
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Grep and remove files
I'm new and not understanding how to grep and remove files. For example I have two different situations
A) Remove all files matching criteria, file name start with digits only B) Second is I have name of all files in file called track.log. how to grep and remove Sample track.log file /home/app/trackv2/0104zle.log /home/app/trackv2/idem44.log /home/app/trackv2/idem224.log /home/app/trackv2/0104zyt.log /home/app/trackv2/0104gbw.log So on? Sorry for my poor english.. plz some1 helpme 
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01-05-2006, 07:25 PM
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Code:
ls | grep -E "^[0-9]" | xargs rm Code:
grep -E "/[0-9]" track.log | xargs rm
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