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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> (Like those of us who go through and hand-delete all the COPYING and 
> COPYRIGHT and INSTALL files - is there some way to do a global rm 
> instead?) 

find / -name INSTALL -exec rm {} \;

(finds all files under the root directory named INSTALL, and executes rm on 
them)

You can repeat for COPYRIGHT and COPYING.

Or if you want to be really swish:

for x in INSTAL COPYRIGHT COPYING;do find / -name $x -exec rm {} \;done