hi, How to find and delete the files in current directory using find command in UNIX? Thanks MPS

To find files in the present directory try: find . -name [filename] To delete said file: rm [filename] If you would like to run this through a script so you can invoke the script and have it look for a certain file, or group of files, and then delete them if they exist will take a little more work. Something like the following might work: #!/bin/sh if [ $# -eq 0 ] then echo "Usage: $0 [ordinary file]" exit 1 elif [ $# -gt 1 ] then echo "Usage: $0 [ordinary file]" exit 1 elif [ -d "$1" ] then echo "Usage: $0 [ordinary file]" exit 1 else if [ -s "$1" ] then find . -name $1 rm $1 echo "$1 deleted" else echo "File does not exist or is zero bytes" fi fi

find . -type f -exec rm {} \; It will delete all the files in current directory and directories below current directory

This is more efficient: find . -type f |xargs rm as it does not spawn a process for each file that is removed. If you want to restrict find to only the current directory, check this out: http://www.computing.net/answers/un... http://www.computing.net/answers/un...

>> find . -type f |xargs rm also if you have GNU find, find . -type f -exec rm {} +; same as using xargs

find /home/personal/ -type f -name "*.txt*" -exec rm { } \; the command will delete the all *.txt files from /home/personal/ folder.