On 08/01/2015 05:13 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > [...] for me, just the special option to allow "." or dir/. is far more > important.
You're discussing several aspects at once - '.' as operand, stopping the removal at file system boundaries, etc. - but this all sounds to me as if you simply wanted this one, right? $ find '.' -mindepth 1 -xdev -delete Have a nice day, Berny