From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!bwkna!haight
Newsgroups: net.sources
Title: Re: Rm ABC?
Article-I.D.: bwkna.146
Posted: Thu Feb 17 10:31:47 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 07:43:14 1983
References: wb2.128

There is a UN*X utility that will remove any old name (but the usage is
ugly and the method can be slow for a file poised above a deep directory
sub-tree):

 find . -name '' \
   -ok rm {} \;

The trick is that find doesn't use the shell to exec rm.