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I am using ubuntu 12.04 lts and i want to remove the following files using the terminal:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth.list.save
/home/jatin/google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb
/home/jatin/google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb.1
/home/jatin/.cache/software-center/piston-helper/rec.ubuntu.com,api,1.0,recommend_app,google-earth-stable,,13c5f00780e1a1b88538de42b80aaada
/home/jatin/.cache/software-center/rnrclient/reviews.ubuntu.com,reviews,api,1.0,reviews,filter,en,any,any,any,google-earth-stable,page,1,helpful,,ea694de2da0c9426e7b795c702d8b1d2
/home/jatin/Desktop/Debians/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
/home/jatin/Downloads/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/128x128/mimetypes/application-vnd-google-earth-kml.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/mimetypes/application-vnd-google-earth-kml.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/mimetypes/application-vnd-google-earth-kml.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/mimetypes/application-vnd-google-earth-kml.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/mimetypes/application-vnd-google-earth-kml.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/64x64/mimetypes/application-vnd-google-earth-kml.png
/usr/share/mime/application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml.xml
/usr/share/mime/application/vnd.google-earth.kmz.xml
/var/cache/apt/archives/google-earth-stable_6.0.3.2197-r0_amd64.deb

and they are scattered in the computer. is there a command to remove them all at once?

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  • You asked before how to format a block of text. Start editing, select the block of text and press the <$> button to format the whole block of text with one click.
    – karel
    Mar 8, 2014 at 13:45
  • Don't delete the files inside (/usr/share) manually .It will break your system.If you want to remove a package then run sudo apt-get purge package command.
    – Avinash Raj
    Mar 8, 2014 at 13:54

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Why not use rm ?

sudo rm path/to/file1 path/to/file2
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If you found the list of files you pasted on the question somehow, you can use rm to delete all of them at one go using the following:

Copy the list of files to gedit(paste using Ctrl+v) and then replace(Ctrl+h) newlines(\n) by a space (' ') and then copy the text and type rm and paste the copied text.

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From what I see in your list of files it seems that you installed google-earth-stable directly from a deb package (/home/jatin/google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb).

If what you want to achieve is removing the package from your computer, type sudo dpkg -r google-earth-stable

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  • it says: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching google-earth-stable
    – Jatttt
    Mar 8, 2014 at 13:50
  • How did you install google-earth-stable? using the Software center? If so, you can easily remove it from the Software Center. For files in /home/jatin, like suggested just use rm to delete them.
    – Sylvain Pineau
    Mar 8, 2014 at 13:54
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It looks like you copy and pasted that list of files from somewhere. If it's the output of a command you ran in the terminal, you can pipe this output to xargs rm.

But before you do that, I see files in /usr/share/ in your list, which suggest they were installed by a package, apparently google-earth-stable. First uninstall that:

sudo apt-get remove --purge google-earth-stable

Once that's done, run your (search?) command again and pipe it to xargs rm like this:

your_search_cmd | xargs rm
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