Command Line Question

[Eric Shubert]

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 at 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 <eric.cope at gmail.com 
> <mailto:eric.cope at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks, the yes command was what I was looking for.
>     Thanks everyone.
> 
>     Eric
> 
> 
>     On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM, <tjones136 at cox.net
>     <mailto:tjones136 at cox.net>> wrote:
> 
>         #unalias rm
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