>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
Matthew> As you have discovered, it is very easy to overload the argument list. Matthew> There are many ways around this, but one of the best ones is to use Matthew> xargs(1). eg: Matthew> % ls -1 | xargs rm No need for the -1 there. Whenever ls is not going to the terminal, it defaults to classic -1 behavior. Compare: % ls with % ls | cat -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
