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.