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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Bill Holt wrote: > woops... > find . -name '*' | xargs rm Wouldn't this end up adding all of the filenames as an argument to rm, hitting the same argument limitation that "rm *" would get? I would normally do: find . -name '*' -exec rm {} \; It ends up invoking a separate rm for each file which gets around that problem, although it'll probably be slower since it needs to spawn a new process each time. -- Greg
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