H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> Would it? Is {} the default arg somehow?
> 
> find . -exec rm {} \; -name '*.txt'
>                 ^^
> 
> would have given you at least loads of errors about the directories
> that cannot be removed with rm :)

Got those with xargs, too, which was when I realized something had gone
horribly, horribly wrong.


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