On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:

> I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has
> somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how)
> 
> I just want to know what to type in to make it do as I tel it
> and erase all these little stupid useless directories.

If there are several directories called ".xvpics", and you want to erase
them all, issue a :
  find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.

HTH
Flupke

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