This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote:
>Can anyone tell me what is the correct form of
>
>find smtpd* -atime 7 -exec ` rm -f {} ` \;
>on a RH5.2 system?

You can only specify one directory to look in, so smtpd* isn't going to
work.

find . -wholename './smtpd*' -atime 7 -exec rm -f {} \;

or

find . -wholename './smtpd*' -atime 7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

I only just learnt -wholename so I may have gotten the syntax wrong.  Buyer
beware! :-)
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