Find and delete all core files
Contributed by qmchenry 
Tagged: UNIX Locate and remove all core files in system using the find command.
find / -name core -exec rm {} \;
The find command replaces the {} characters in the command above with the filenames that it finds. You must include the \ immediately before the ; character.
See the comments for a more advanced method of accomplishing this.
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Stef said on October 23, 2008
sparkomemphis on http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=229890 has this example that will help prevent removing non-core files named (lets not argue that there should not be any of these) core.
find . -name core* -user $USER -type f -size +1000000c -exec file {} ; -exec ls -l {} ; -exec printf “nny to remove this core filen” ; -exec /bin/rm -i {} ;
Quinn McHenry said on October 23, 2008
I like that! Nice bit of code. Thanks for sharing!