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MrRoberts

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Registered: 2012-07-05

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Find and delete using part of a name?

I'm connecting to an external drive that was part of Windows (/run/media/neo/SAMSUNG/) and trying to delete more than one file.

Hundreds of infected file names look like this...

-!RecOveR!-orcji++.Htm
-!RecOveR!-pdkgr++.Txt

How do I issue a command to search for the above file names and delete them?

graysky

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Re: Find and delete using part of a name?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+find+rm

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ewaller

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Re: Find and delete using part of a name?

Try the find command

find path -name \-\!RecOveR\!\-\* 
where path is the root directory that contains the files.   If that creates a list of said files, then redirect the output to a file using >
find path -name \-\!RecOveR\!\-\* > foo 
Audit foo carefully.  Then do rm < foo   But be carefull.  This is not a perfect solution and the file names could need some escaping of characters.

Edit:  Snaked by Graysky

Last edited by ewaller (2016-04-24 15:18:17)

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MrRoberts

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Registered: 2012-07-05

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Re: Find and delete using part of a name?

Thank you, ewaller for your quick explanation

This is what I've done so far and the foo list shows what I'm looking for.

find /run/media/neo/SAMSUNG/ -name \-\!RecOveR\!\-\* > foo

Now, how do I correctly delete those files? Just want to hear from you before I do anything.

Last edited by MrRoberts (2016-04-24 15:43:58)

MrRoberts

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Registered: 2012-07-05

Posts: 47

Re: Find and delete using part of a name?

Managed to find and delete those files successfully.

Thanks again, ewaller

jasonwryan

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Re: Find and delete using part of a name?

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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