and its not /;
its \;
so that would make it
find / -name deal.letter -exec rm {} \;
notice that the name you are looking for is not dead.letterS but
dead.letter
J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Galpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: script
| actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
| dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.
|
| hth charles
|
| On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:
|
| > >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
| > >
| > >Note, all of that has to be there.
| > >HTH, HAND
| > >Bill Ward
| >
| > The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
| > characters or spaces.
|
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