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need to find fifo files

I need to be able to recursively find fifo files in a users home directory. What is the best way to do that.
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Hey Frankkahle

Its prity simple.... u can execute folowing command

# find /home | grep <the file name you wanna look for>

if you wanna see all of the files without filtering use bellow command
# find /home

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taking the command further.

thats great, now what if i want to take those files it found and automatically delete them?

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