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Further, the -exec file {} \; -exec rm -i {} \; is tailored for interactive use,
while -type f -exec rm -f {} \; is tailored for scripts.

BTW -delete is a new option in new find versions. Would...

Oh dear, I'm classing myself as a geek. Well, if the name fits, ......

The way you have tried, the shell will expand *.back before trying to run the command. If you happend to have a file at the...

hi,
have a look at man usermod, the section OPTIONS, option -p.

perform tests on a test account

see ya
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That is a useless use of cat (http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html) and useless use of backticks (http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#backticks), inherently dangerous because any file too long...

Pludi's code works fine under bash while I guess you are running ksh which doesn't implement a sub second sleep builtin.

I would slightly modify two lines of your script:bal=`ls -lrt *.txt |wc...

This works with ksh, bash and dash

cnt=0
# if you need only files which names are *.txt, then no need ls+awk
for file in *.txt ...