On Wednesday 19 September 2001 16:16, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > find /share -name "*.eml" -exec rm -f -- {} \; > > I've been fortunate enough to not have any of these show up on my samba > shares. > -- I did it a little differently. To keep from deleting "valid" saved e-mails, I did the following: > cat emldelete find / -name *.eml > /home/shawnf/eml.txt # for i in `cat /home/shawnf/eml.txt` do strings $i |grep readme.exe if [ $? -eq 0 ] then rm $i fi done The .nws files have the same basic headers and so forth, so I just wrote another script to search for them. I know it can be done on one line, but I like to keep it clean and easily understandable. That way, just about anyone can figure out what I was doing should I not be here. --- Shawn "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." -Bruce Lee