Can U pipe filenames to rm???

[Matthew Farwell]

In article <28790001 at col.hp.com> greiner at col.hp.com (Mike Greiner) writes:
>
>                    Piping filenames to the rm command???
>There may be a pretty simple solution to this, but I haven't found it.  I'm
>considering using a for-loop that parses each line as the loop counter, 
>but don't know if that's the best approach...appreciate any suggestions!

See xargs. (if you have it on your system.)

Example of how it works:

find / -name 'core' -print | xargs rm

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