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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
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Date: 5 Oct 90 16:20:51 GMT
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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 ?

Perhaps an order of magnitude difference in speed/efficiency?
Besides the original question didn't specifically use "find."

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