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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using find command with variables Post 302930695 by RavinderSingh13 on Tuesday 6th of January 2015 01:07:53 PM
Old 01-06-2015
Hello newbie2010,

Following may help you in same, I tested in bash.
1st please check the file names which you want to delete, if satisfied with result use 2nd command.
Code:
VAR="PET-DOG"
find -type f -name "*$VAR*"
./TEST-PET-DOG-234
./TEST-PET-DOG-TEST

I got above results as I have created some test files to check it.

2nd command:
Code:
find -type f -name "*$VAR*" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Thanks,
R. Singh
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