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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Arg list too long error?  Here's a work-around.
Keywords: find
Message-ID: <1941@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 15 Nov 90 22:41:49 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.192707.1099@millipore.com>
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In article <1990Nov14.192707.1099@millipore.com> lampert@millipore.com (Jeff Lampert) writes:
>So, by giving the command:
>
>find . -name "SRW*" -exec rm {} \;
>
>I was able to delete all the SRW files.

Wow!  Just when I thought the xargs thread had died.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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