Robert Heller wrote: > At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:43:40 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find >> <numble> -exec rm -f {} \;" ? > > The command "find <mumble> -exec rm -f {} \;" collects ALL of the names > "find <numble>" as a single command line, which in your case is too > large for the shell to deal with. Gosh, then I guess the manpage for 'find' must be totally wrong where it says: -exec command ; ... The specified command is run once for each matched file. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.