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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.120612.27298@virtech.uucp>
Date: 29 Sep 90 12:06:12 GMT
References: <28790001@col.hp.com> <1990Sep28.211655.4903@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Sep28.211655.4903@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <28790001@col.hp.com> greiner@col.hp.com (Mike Greiner) writes:
>>
>>    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`

The fact that you are limited in the number of files and cumulative length of
the names of the files.  If you come up with one extra name, or one too many
characters in the names, the shell will refuse to exec it, saying something
about "arg list too long".


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