Arg list too long error? Here's a work-around.

D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy at druid.uucp
Fri Nov 16 15:15:46 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov16.001140.11923 at 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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