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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <0K46FZB@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 21:57:18 GMT
References: <28790001@col.hp.com> <1990Sep29.001151.11544@diku.dk>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1990Sep29.001151.11544@diku.dk> kimcm@diku.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) writes:
> If you're sure the output of the ninstall does not exceed the limit of
> what the shell you're using can handle...

> 	ninstall .... | xargs rm

> However, if the filelist from ninstall et al. does exceed the shell buffer...

	ninstall .... | xargs rm

xargs will split the commandline into chunks the shell will handle.
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