Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.233843.24650@virtech.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 90 23:38:43 GMT
References: <28790001@col.hp.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <28790001@col.hp.com> greiner@col.hp.com (Mike Greiner) writes:
>
>                    Piping filenames to the rm command???
>
>I haven't figured out how to pipe this list of names to rm. 

You don't need to.  Pipe the list of names to  xargs rm.


>    ninstall -h $1 -vvvvv -p $2 | grep path | cut -d " " -f4

Just change this to:

     ninstall -h $1 -vvvvv -p $2 | grep path | cut -d " " -f4 | xargs rm

This, of course, assumes you have xargs.  If you don't, you can get one 
of the PD versions that have been posted to c.s.u in the past.

Otherwise, if you know that the length of the list is relatively short (i.e.
it wont overrun the command line buffer length) you can do the following:

     rm `ninstall -h $1 -vvvvv -p $2 | grep path | cut -d " " -f4`

else you could do the following:

     ninstall -h $1 -vvvvv -p $2 | grep path | cut -d " " -f4 | while read name
     do
         rm $name
     done

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