In article <9793 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: :In article <15659 at oberon.USC.EDU> rkumar at buddha.usc.edu () writes: :>Will rm -r *.dvi do the job? : :No, try "find . -name '*.dvi' -print | xargs rm". : Why not, "find . -type f -name '*.dvi' -exec rm {} \;" ? -david-