command to delete all files with numbers

Question

How can I delete nay file that has a number in its name from directory /www/ and up? Like, it would delete

a1.php

a2.php

123213.php

asdasd5.php

Would this work?

ls | grep \([1-9]\) -f | xargs rm

I haven't tested it yet, don't want to mess up anything.

Answer 1

I would use find. Something like:

find /www/ -name "*[0-9]*" -type f -exec rm {} \;

This will find all the files only (-type f) in /www with at least one number in the filename and execute rm FILE on it.

Out of safety try it first out with echo, such as:

find /www/ -name "*[0-9]*" -type f -exec echo {} \;