Can U pipe filenames to rm???
George Turczynski
george at hls0.hls.oz
Thu Oct 4 08:33:07 AEST 1990
>From previous postings-
> >Example:
> > find {{stuff here}} -print | xargs rm -f
> Locally, we've hacked our "find" to handle:
> $ find . -name \*.old -rm
Our `find' (SunOS) supports the `-exec' option, and I assume this would be
fairly common. So, those of you without xargs, and who | a. can't, b. don't
want to | hack `find' use it like this:
find {{stuff here}} -exec rm -f {} \;
Why use `xargs' when you don't need to ?
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