cleanup script needed

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <80 at torsqnt.UUCP> david at torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
>Why not, 	"find . -type f -name '*.dvi' -exec rm {} \;" 	?

>From the context of his question, the "-type f" seemed unnecessary.
The reason for using xargs instead of -exec is to make the command
finish in less time.  (I know BSD systems often don't have xargs,
but presumably one could use the "apply" utility instead.)