Yes, that did it, tks G. I didn't consider that at first cos I thought
"find" might have a similar problem in pre-building its list, but it
appears that it doesn't pre-build.
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, George Vieira wrote:
> I have this from time to time and I think the way I did it is remove the
> files 1 at a time using this command:
>
>
> find /bad/directory/* -print -exec rm -fr {} \;
>
>
> I suggest you be very careful on this though.. I haven't had a problem but 1
> typo can make the difference.
> I suggest changing the `rm -fr` to a `ls -l` and make sure it display the
> files you want to remove and then use the real command
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