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Removing all files located

March 5, 2016

Sometimes, we need to delete all the files searched by locate command. What we do ( i do this before :P) is to go to those files path and delete them manually, one by one, which was a tedious job. So to do this using command, type: $locate <search-string> | xargs rm -Rf What xargs does … More Removing all files located

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