On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:34, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- William Ballard <40618.nospam@comcast.net> wrote: > > Just some tips on using find: > > > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d` > > find /usr/local -name '*vmware*' -exec rm -rf {} \; I recommend learning 'xargs' (higher performance when 100s of files, apparently less secure or something). As follows: find /usr/local -name '*vmware*'|xargs rm -rf cheers zen