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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <1977@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 90 03:00:39 GMT
References: <28790001@col.hp.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <28790001@col.hp.com> greiner@col.hp.com (Mike Greiner) writes:

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

  I think what you want is the xargs routine, which may not be available
on your system but is on most.

Example:
  find {{stuff here}} -print | xargs rm -f
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