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According to Dave Korn on 8/24/2006 1:43 PM:
>> Is there any way around to do what I want , i.e remove a large number of log
>> files using the rm command with the wildcard * argument.
> 
>   "find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm"

Except that deletes files starting with . (when rm * does not), and does
not delete symlinks (when rm * does).  Also, you could save a process or two:

find -name '*.log' -delete

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