On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote: > The problem is that you're getting things like "Nov28-log:" back, with > the trailing colon. Try this: > ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf > Note that the first option is a one, not an el. Or for that matter, just "echo *log" instead of ls. -- Dave Ihnat