Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:54:35 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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>> $ touch Done
>> $ find . -name '[Dd][Oo][Nn][Ee]' -exec rm -f '{}' ';'

> Tried this on an ancient Win98 PC and got the following:-
> 1) cannot touch a directory get permission denied (EACCESS) error
> 2) I get an error from rm as follows (re-typed)
>     rm: invalid operation -- .
> 3) $ find . -name '[Dd][Oo][Nn][Ee]'
>     returned "./done" which looked okay.

> On XP with SP1 I get the following results:
> a) Under bash:
>     bash-2.05b$ find . -name '[Dd][Oo][Nn][Ee]' -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
>     rm: `./done' is a directory
> b) Under command.com or cmd.exe
>     DJGPP_204 C:\dj204\bin>find . -name '[Dd][Oo][Nn][Ee]' -exec rm -f '{}'
> ';'
>     rm: `./done' is a directory

What about `Done' being a file, not a directory?

Thanks for testing,
Laurynas