Shell Programming and Scripting

For the record, the echo should have been directed to a file (in my example, I called it "test"), not to a directory (in your response).
"cat" the file to see a list of the files / directories that are found.

It is simply a testing mechanism - so that when you test with other flags (like adding the asterisk in the solution above), you don't have to keep recreating the data.

I'm glad that you seem to have found a solution!

- Avron

My command work under Solaris. I think you are under Mandriva 2009 ?
So, the recursive option of the 'rm' command is '-R' and not '-r'.