>> find / -name "core.*" -exec rm {} \;
>Oops, I'd say you should not run this at all: It will also find files
>like "core.pd", "core.txt" or "core.c" which probably are *not*
>coredumps. Better use:
>$ find / -name "core" -exec rm {} \;
core files on my system have the pid appended, so:
find / -name "core.[0-9]*" -exec ls -l {} \;
(might be a 2.6-ism)
Also, I would never rm the files without thinking about it first, hence
the change from rm to ls -l
But better is to find all large recent files:
find / -size +1000000c -mtime -1 | xargs ls -l
prints all files changed more recently than one day ago and larger than 1MB
