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Subject: Re: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs
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Hi Mathieu,

> useless to do -r while you search only files (-type f)

> the delete function of find seems more apropriate to me

But the -exec mode is more general (understand you put whatever
command you want there) and beside, the first question was refeering
to a syntax using {}.

But I guess that Graham has already deleted all his directories anyway :)

Olivier