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Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)



>>>>> "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>



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