>>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: Karsten> $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f Karsten> {} \; If it weren't for the fact that "find" prefixes the name of the file with "./", then this wouldn't work. A simpler thing which does exactly the same thing (and surprisingly nobody seems to have mentioned it yet) is: rm -f ./--remove-files -- Brian May <bam@debian.org>