> There are too many folders and sub folders for me to delete each *.snm > file via the GNOME file manager so I thought I'd resort to the Linux Use find to locate the files, and then do an rm on what files it finds. find . =name "*.snm" | xargs rm A shorter way: rm `find . -name "*.shm"` If there are a lot of files to find, method #2, although easier to write, can conceptually fail, because the output of find is just plopped right on the command line and you end up with 'rm a bunch of really long files one after the other ... ' . But as the command line is very large (at least 70 K) in linux, you have to have a really big list. find with xargs should be faster in some cases, as it divides up the work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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