David,

Find is actually caching the Directory Information, before it sorts through it
all.

Put the Following Option into your script:

-maxdepth 1

This will make find examine the directories that you want to delete, and not the
underlying filestructure underneath.

HTH.

David Guntner wrote:

> I've got a cron job that runs every night, to get rid of Mozilla cache files.
> In it, it does:
>
> cd /home
> for d in `ls`
> do
>   if [ -d $d/.mozilla ]; then
>     find $d/.mozilla -type d -name Cache -exec rm -rf {} \;
>   fi
> done

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