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On 9-11-2010 6:57, Eitan Adler wrote:
> If you really want to "delete all the ".chk" files extension files at a time"
> find path -name '*.chk' -print -prune -exec rm -rf {} + \;

And more efficient:

find path -name '*.chk' -delete

Peter

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