On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:08:18 +1000, Michael Anthon <michael at anthon.net> wrote: > <snip> "find blah | xargs -i echo rm -rf". </snip> I do nearly exactly this whenever I'm doing potentially hazardous. I'm also one of these people that types 'hostname' before 'halt', even though my hostname is in the shell's prompt. Stephen.