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Author: Eric Cope
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Subject: Re: Command Line Question
in this trite example, rm -f doesn't override read-only files. (\rm does).

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:28 AM, James Finstrom <
> wrote:

> 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

>>>
>>>        -----Original Message-----
>>>        From: Eric Cope < <mailto:eric.cope@gmail.com

>>> >>
>>>        Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:35:15
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