Hi find -version find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2 I issued this command to remove all files "*_original" from parent tree : /find .. iname "*_original" -delete/ as you see I forgot the minus sign before /iname/. The result was all regular files were deleted, just leaving behind empty directories (I don't really know why dirs remained, maybe because it is a synchronised folder with some exclusions that prevented remote deletion and the local were created back). Is it because /iname/ and /"*_original"/ are both seen as EXPRESSIONS that always return true so that -delete applies to .. and content as a whole ? Thanks //