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Author: James Finstrom
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Subject: Re: Command Line Question
I am still lost as why you would want the extra load no matter how small of
piping a second command when -f is built in. This is like folks doing `cat
file.txt | grep -i term` rather then `grep -i term file.txt`

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Eric Shubert <> wrote:

> Yeah, that looks better. < would redirect the contents of a file. Pipe is
> for a command.
>
> Dan Dubovik wrote:
>
>> yes | rm -i *txt
>>
>> seems to be the proper syntax.
>>
>> [root@localhost yestest]# rm -i file.* < yes
>> -bash: yes: No such file or directory
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric Cope < <mailto:
>> >> wrote:
>>
>>    Thanks, the yes command was what I was looking for.
>>    Thanks everyone.

>>
>>    Eric

>>
>>
>>    On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM, <
>>    <mailto:tjones136@cox.net>> wrote:

>>
>>        #unalias rm
>>        Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

>>
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