On Thu, 2005-Jan-20 13:36:30 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Since the original poster was willing to use -rf, wouldn't it be >better to do: > >cd /var/spool/directory ; find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f The original poster mentioned that "find" wouldn't work: find(1) uses fts(3) which reads the entire directory into memory. -- Peter Jeremy