Arg list too long error? Here's a work-around.

[neal.r.fildes]

> In article <1990Nov16.001140.11923 at druid.uucp>
>>ls | grep '^SRW' | while read X
>>do rm $X
>>done
> 

I would recommend the xargs(1) command for such things. it saves fork/exec's
e.g.

ls | grep '^SRW' | xargs rm

xargs bunches up a number of arguments into one fork/exec!