removing a file with hyphens

Jonathan Stowe jns at gellyfish.com
Thu Jun 7 13:50:14 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 13:20 +0100, Matt Wilson wrote:
> > #  find . -name '*Original' -exec rm {} \;
> >
> > will do it.
> 
> ARGH!

Yeah, could have at least used the '-delete' action of 'find' to save
the potential deaths of thousands of angels/fairies/kittens/(whatever it
is that dies when you fork).

:-p

/J\ 


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