Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sat Oct 6 04:34:59 AEST 1990
In article <941 at hls0.hls.oz> george at hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski) writes:
> find {{stuff here}} -exec rm -f {} \;
>
>Why use `xargs' when you don't need to ?
Because it is *******MUCH******* faster (assuming you are going to exec the
command more than once or twice).
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