On Thursday, January 05, 2012 04:49:16 PM, Jack Chastain wrote:
> In Unix-land, I would use:
> 
> find . -type f -name README.txt -ex rm {} \;
> 
> (Alternatively, and probably a little more circumspect: "find
> /dirname/subdirname/etc .....")
> 
> Is that valid syntax in Linux?

Yes GNU find allows specifying the path, e.g.:

   find /etc/dhcp/ -name "*dhclient*"

  -- Chris

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