DZone Snippets: find code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:35:47 GMT DZone Snippets: find code Clearing out a bunch of spam with spoofed emails that were bounced back to some poor guy with a catchall email http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/219 We don't really want to delete them all just in case. <br /> <br /><code> <br />cd /usr/local/scratch/ <br />mkdir junk <br />find /var/spool/postfix -exec grep "somediscernible-feature.com" '{}' \; | awk '{print($3)}' | xargs -J X mv X ./junk/ <br /></code> <br /> <br />The "find" produces <br /> <br /><code> <br />Binary file /var/spool/postfix/active/D/D8832E38 matches <br />Binary file /var/spool/postfix/active/D/D78EC1C72 matches <br />Binary file /var/spool/postfix/active/D/D593D279D matches <br />Binary file /var/spool/postfix/active/D/D0EB32833 matches <br /></code> <br /> <br />The awk <br /> <br /><code> <br />/var/spool/postfix/active/D/D8832E38 <br />/var/spool/postfix/active/D/D78EC1C72 <br />/var/spool/postfix/active/D/D593D279D <br />/var/spool/postfix/active/D/D0EB32833 <br /></code> <br /> <br />And then the mv, moves it. Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:53:38 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/219 jason (Jason Hoffman)