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neo_in_matrix

04-12-2005 11:19 PM

How to rm a list of files returned from another program?

I have a perl script that output file names like this:
/path/file1
/path/file2
/path/file3

Now I want to rm the list of files output by this script. How to do that? I tried myprog|rm, but it does not work.

scuzzman

04-12-2005 11:24 PM

Try this:

Code:

program_name | xargs rm

Harmaa Kettu

04-12-2005 11:24 PM

Code:

for file in `myprog`; do rm $file; done

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