Can U pipe filenames to rm???

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Fri Oct 5 17:08:59 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 ?

Speed.

---Dan



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