dump files -- how to spot them.

[hictio]

having the `shell script crond fever`, i would like to know how can i identify a core dump file, in order to write a script to rm them automatically.
the problem is, in some of the documentation that i found those files are called either ".core" or ".dead".
i`ve runned a find on those type of files but found none.
is the name of a dump file different from distribution to distibution?
i`m afraid i`d rm something useful like kcore, perhaps ;->.

[mikek147]

From what I've seen, and what is normally done in UNIX/Linux, the file is just ./core. Try this:

find / -name \*core\* -print

This will give a result of any file that has the "core" string in its file name. The backslash is needed so find will use the '*' character as a wild card character, instead of using the character as part of the name.

Good luck. -mk

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[hictio]

thanks mike, i`ll search for those files, following your advice, and let you know.
i wasn`t aware of the `\` with find, thanks.