Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holth...@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > You might try: > > find -name *.ext -print0 | xargs -0 rm
But this is non-standard. UNIX introduced -exec {} + 1990 (when David Korn rewrote find(1) and it is in the POSIX standared since some time. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily