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

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:38:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Yet another solution:
> 
>     $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f {} \;

...which is just a longwinded way of saying "rm -f ./--remove-files".
(Unless you have a subdirectory containing another file named
"--remove-files", in which case it will get 'rm -f'ed too.)

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