Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Arg list too long error?  Here's a work-around.
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 04:15:46 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.041546.12798@druid.uucp>
Keywords: oops
References: <1990Nov16.001140.11923@druid.uucp>

In article <1990Nov16.001140.11923@druid.uucp> I wrote:
>ls | grep '^SRW' | while read X
>do rm $i
>done

Ouch!  Please don't flood my mailbox or the net.  Of course I meant
 do rm $X

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