On 22/01/2012 19:00, clift...@volcano.org wrote: > If rm had an option to take files from standard input, or if > there's another program I'm not aware of which does this, it > could serve as the right-hand side of this.
xargs(1) -- generic solution to taking a list of command arguments from
a file or pipe, and building a command line from them.
So, supposing you have a list of files (one per line) you want to delete
in a file called 'goners':
xargs rm -f < goners
xargs(1) is very commonly used in pipelines with find(1).
Cheers,
Matthew
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