Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???

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From: Matthew Farwell
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 1990 01:10

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In article <28790001@col.hp.com> greiner@col.hp.com (Mike Greiner) writes:
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>                    Piping filenames to the rm command???
>There may be a pretty simple solution to this, but I haven't found it.  I'm
>considering using a for-loop that parses each line as the loop counter, 
>but don't know if that's the best approach...appreciate any suggestions!

See xargs. (if you have it on your system.)

Example of how it works:

find / -name 'core' -print | xargs rm

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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
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Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
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Date: 29 Sep 90 01:10:52 GMT
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