Can U pipe filenames to rm???

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Sep29.001151.11544 at diku.dk> kimcm at diku.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) writes:
> If you're sure the output of the ninstall does not exceed the limit of
> what the shell you're using can handle...

> 	ninstall .... | xargs rm

> However, if the filelist from ninstall et al. does exceed the shell buffer...

	ninstall .... | xargs rm

xargs will split the commandline into chunks the shell will handle.
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