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On 07/17/2011 02:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Are you using wildcards in the arguments to rm ?
> 
> Rather use find | xargs or find -exec which are designed to deal with
> exactly this circumstance.
> 
>> On 17 Jul 2011 9:32 PM, "Grant" <emailgrant@gmail.com
>> <mailto:emailgrant@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain folder

Okay, everyone, back away slowly from this post and then delete it
from your cache.  The *real* Alan McKinnon does not top post.