On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Mike Miller wrote: > Example: > > $ for DIR in $(echo $PATH | tr : '\n') ; do find "$DIR" -name 'r?' -type f -executable ; done > /bin/rm > > But I was hoping for something more concise. This works without the for loop: $ find $(echo $PATH | tr : '\n') -name 'r?' -type f -executable /bin/rm I'm not sure how it fares if there is a space in a path -- it might depend on ${IFS}. Mike