Using 'find' for recursive search and delete

Question

My queston is kind off a basic * nautilus at time cant do well at recursive search & related operations...

I want to search files having name libre in them & then delete them... I am half done here & cant find a relaiable way to delete files especially when filenames have white spaces in them...

find -iname *libre*

this will search the files but lets say a file is 'Libre Office Word' now it has white spaces can you guide how to delete such files too?

Answer 1

You can use the -delete option if your version of find supports it or you can use rm in the -exec options.

find -iname '*libre*' -delete       # GNU find
find -iname '*libre*' -exec rm {} + # POSIX

Note that you should quote the pattern. This prevents the shell from expanding it prior to being passed to the find command.