Remove all files containing a pattern

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Mar 15, 20267613 views

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Suppose I have a directory with files and subdirectories underneath it. Some of the files contain a pattern "^File:" in their contents. Is there some way I can use grep and a bash command to remove files that contain this pattern? Note I am talking about contents of the file, not the filenames.

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The above code removes files containing . This also handles cases where there are filenames with spaces and other characters. alone, as suggested in other answers, will fail.

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