recursive remove help please

[vincentw]

i'm trying to remove a file that's in a lot of directories/sub-directories. It's created from visual sourcesafe. I've tried "rm -r vssver.scc" and I get "rm: cannont remove `vssver.scc`: No such file or directory".

I've also tried "rm `find . vssver.scc`", but I get:
find: vssver.scc: No such file or directory
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Can some please tell he how I can do a recursive remove?

Thanks

[Cryptofreak]

If I am not mistaken unless given a path "find" will only search a given directory you are in. I would say that you open a terminal as root and do the following

updatedb

which will update the file database and then do the following

locate vssver.scc

which will search through the file database and look for all references to vssver.scc. This will give you a list of all locations that the file is in. If it is large, re-run the locate and pipe it into more or less.

[vincentw]

that didn't work but thanks...

i found out that i was using find incorrectly.

Thanks for your help though