'rm' Can not delete files

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

Matthew>    find . -type f -depth 1 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'

Matthew> but let's not leave people in any doubt that this is not the
Matthew> best option.

However...

  find . -type f -depth 1 -exec rm -f {} +

Might very well be a great option.  Well, not for something that is also
like -delete, but for other things that would have formerly required
"-print0 | xargs -0"... this is apparently a fairly recent (and
welcome!) modification to find.

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