On 01/05/2012 04:37 PM, John Mort wrote:
john@azrael:/media/mtool/Tokens$ ls * | grep README.txt
README.txt
README.txt
README.txt
README.txt
README.txt
README.txt
README.txt
README.txt
README.txt


The folder I'm running this command in has many many subfolders.  How do
I change my command to tell me where these README.txt files are so that
I can purge them?

$ find . -name README.txt

if you would also like to remove them in one fell swoop:

$ find . -name README.txt | xargs rm

        -Sean


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