actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.

hth charles

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:

> >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
> >
> >Note, all of that has to be there.
> >HTH, HAND
> >Bill Ward
> 
> The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
> characters or spaces.



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