Can U pipe filenames to rm???

Paul Chamberlain tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com
Sat Oct 6 02:20:51 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 ?

Perhaps an order of magnitude difference in speed/efficiency?
Besides the original question didn't specifically use "find."

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