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From: george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <941@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 3 Oct 90 22:33:07 GMT
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From previous postings-

> >Example:
> >  find {{stuff here}} -print | xargs rm -f
  
> Locally, we've hacked our "find" to handle:
> 	$ find . -name \*.old -rm

Our `find' (SunOS) supports the `-exec' option, and I assume this would be
fairly common.  So, those of you without xargs, and who | a. can't,  b. don't
want to | hack `find' use it like this:

	find {{stuff here}} -exec rm -f {} \;

Why use `xargs' when you don't need to ?

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