Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Mike Greiner
greiner at col.hp.com
Fri Sep 28 05:13:46 AEST 1990
Piping filenames to the rm command???
I am trying to write a script to uninstall files installed via an
ninstall package. I can generate a list of filenames to delete, but
I haven't figured out how to pipe this list of names to rm. Here's
the heart of my script so far, followed by its output:
ninstall -h $1 -vvvvv -p $2 | grep path | cut -d " " -f4
Now I want to pipe the output of this command into rm. Here's the output:
/usr/local/doc/ninstall/UserGuide.mm
/usr/local/man/man1/ninstall.1
/usr/local/man/man1m/installd.1m
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!
--Mike
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