Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm??? Message-ID: <11277:Oct507:08:5990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 5 Oct 90 07:08:59 GMT References: <1977@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Sep30.182331.14363@iconsys.uucp> <941@hls0.hls.oz> Organization: IR Lines: 7 In article <941@hls0.hls.oz> george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski) writes: > find {{stuff here}} -exec rm -f {} \; > Why use `xargs' when you don't need to ? Speed. ---Dan