as root:
find / -name "*\.eml" -exec rm -f {} \;
or
find / -name "*\.eml" | xargs rm -f
You might want to just
find / -name "*\.eml" | more
first to make sure you don't have any file with that name you wish to keep
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zachariah Mully [mailto:zmully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:57 AM
> To: LVS
> Subject: OT: pipe to rm?
>
>
>
> Sorry about the off topic post, but this dang Nimda
> worm is spreading
> eml files all over my samba servers and the idiots here at the office
> insist on opening them up (I can only patch so many computers at a
> time...) My bash knowledge is shaky at best and I can't figure out how
> to generate a list of *.eml files and then how to pipe this
> into rm. Can
> anyone help?
>
> Thanks again and sorry about the OT post.
>
> Zack
>
>
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