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From: mday@iconsys.uucp (Matt Day)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.182331.14363@iconsys.uucp>
Date: 30 Sep 90 18:23:31 GMT
References: <28790001@col.hp.com> <1977@sixhub.UUCP>
Organization: Sanyo/Icon International, Inc., Orem, Utah
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In article <1977@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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

Locally, we've hacked our "find" to handle:

	$ find . -name \*.old -rm

And "find" will do the unlink() itself.  It also has similar "-chown" and
"-chgrp".  It's much faster than running "rm" a zillion times..
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