<p dir="ltr">You could do this a couple of ways:</p>
<p dir="ltr">rm -v `ls -R | grep "\ 2\.mp3"`</p>
<p dir="ltr">ls -R | grep "\ 2\.mp3" | xargs rm -v</p>
<p dir="ltr">You could also look into using find instead of the ls and grep combination and use the -exec argument to call rm -v</p>
<p dir="ltr">Lots of ways to skin that cat.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Matt</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 7, 2016 22:32, "Johnathon Scott" <<a href="mailto:js573712@ohio.edu">js573712@ohio.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I am having difficulty understanding how to pass values to rm. I want<br>
to delete files that match a specific criterion. I recently acquired an<br>
os x machine and iTunes has doubled a significant portion of my<br>
library. But fortunately, the duplicates are easy to identify, they all<br>
look like "foo 2.(mp3|m4a)".<br>
<br>
What I have right now is "ls -R | grep "\ 2\.mp3" | rm -v".<br>
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Thank you for your time,<br>
<br>
Johnathon Scott<br>
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