On Apr 2, 2012, at 14:35, Joshua Root wrote: > Does just "find ${configure.dir} -name Makefile" also give unexpected > results? The "find" correctly finds 28 files named "Makefile". It correctly removes " -L " from 22 of them. The remaining 6 are in the directory mythplugins/mythweather/mythweather/scripts and do not contain that string so there's nothing to remove.