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From: greiner@col.hp.com (Mike Greiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <28790001@col.hp.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 19:13:46 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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                    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

Now I want to pipe the output of this command into rm.  Here's the output:

     /usr/local/doc/ninstall/UserGuide.mm
     /usr/local/man/man1/ninstall.1
     /usr/local/man/man1m/installd.1m

There may be a pretty simple solution to this, but I haven't found it.  I'm
considering using a for-loop that parses each line as the loop counter, 
but don't know if that's the best approach...appreciate any suggestions!

--Mike

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