I demand that Geert Stappers may or may not have written... [snip] > find . -name exact-name-of-file | xargs rm -f > or > find . -name exact-name-of-file -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f > can be reduced to > rm -f exact-name-of-file
They can't: consider what happens when ./foo/exact-name-of-file exists. > My message is: avoid surprises from find. :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... Proposals, as understood by the proposer, will be judged otherwise by others.