Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Neil Rickert
rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu
Sat Sep 29 07:16:55 AEST 1990
In article <28790001 at col.hp.com> greiner at col.hp.com (Mike Greiner) writes:
>
> Piping filenames to the rm command???
>
>I am trying to write a script to uninstall files installed via an
>ninstall package. I can generate a list of filenames to delete, but
>I haven't figured out how to pipe this list of names to rm. Here's
>the heart of my script so far, followed by its output:
>
> ninstall -h $1 -vvvvv -p $2 | grep path | cut -d " " -f4
What is wrong with:
rm `ninstall -h $1 -vvvvv -p $2 | grep path | cut -d " " -f4`
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Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
Northern Illinois Univ.
DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
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