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Article #1392Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
From: Paul Chamberlain
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 16:20
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 16:20
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In article <941@hls0.hls.oz> george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski) writes:
> find {{stuff here}} -exec rm -f {} \;
>Why use `xargs' when you don't need to ?
Perhaps an order of magnitude difference in speed/efficiency?
Besides the original question didn't specifically use "find."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!doorstop.austin.ibm.com!tif From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm??? Message-ID: <3784@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 5 Oct 90 16:20:51 GMT References: <28790001@col.hp.com> <1977@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Sep30.182331.14363@iconsys.uucp> <941@hls0.hls.oz> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 9