Jared, Honestly, I didn't searched too far, because I use this find command to clean the export dumps for some small databases. And as it is executed every week, the number of files is always 7 so it has virtually no impact on perfs. But I'll give it a try with xargs, hovewer. Thanks, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : On 7/12/06, Marius Raicu <mariu200@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, I'm on RHEL3 and I use something like this, which works /usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print -exec /bin/rm {} \; You know of course, that '-exec CMD {} \:' is evil. For simple commands that accept a single argument, xargs is superior. eg. /usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print | xargs rm -exec forks and executes a shell for each file, xargs does not. Try comparing the execution times of both methods. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Regards, Marius --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire.