[NTLUG:Discuss] rm doesn't recurse

[David White]

> The method to avoid spawning thousands of rm's is to use find as:
>
> find . -type d -exec rm *.zip \;

Or just use the, imo simpler,

rm `find . -name "*.zip"`

That will only spawn one instance of 'rm', which will likely do a fairly
efficient loop over its arguments. There'll be a little cost in the shell
expansion, but not a big deal I don't think.

David