I digged a bit more into that and found that my problem is related to the '-exec mv "{}" xxx \;'
when replaced by '-exec ls -lh "{}" \;' there is no problem... Maybe what I was doing worked only by chance since it has side-effect on the directory tree that is currently traversed. Am I completely crasy or is there some other option like maybe '-prune' that should be used for such cases ? [trying with trivial exemple on linux] OK it seems to work here. maybe too trivial. [trying on windows cygwin] So I swapped the -depth with a -prune placed just before or after the -exec and it does not work. Oh well maybe I didn't RTFM hard enough... -- Vincent Legoll -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/