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Article #1287Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
From: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 03:00
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 03:00
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In article <28790001@col.hp.com> greiner@col.hp.com (Mike Greiner) writes:
| Now I want to pipe the output of this command into rm. Here's the output:
I think what you want is the xargs routine, which may not be available
on your system but is on most.
Example:
find {{stuff here}} -print | xargs rm -f
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm??? Message-ID: <1977@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 90 03:00:39 GMT References: <28790001@col.hp.com> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 14