>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> writes:
Matthew> find . -type f -depth 1 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
Matthew> but let's not leave people in any doubt that this is not the
Matthew> best option.
However...
find . -type f -depth 1 -exec rm -f {} +
Might very well be a great option. Well, not for something that is also
like -delete, but for other things that would have formerly required
"-print0 | xargs -0"... this is apparently a fairly recent (and
welcome!) modification to find.
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