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RE: delete file based on content



Please ignore former post.  It was an ID10T error on my part.



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom [mailto:40101.nospam@comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:41 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: delete file based on content

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I tried the following: grep -li "Processing completed correctly" * 
> 
> This gave me the list of logs that were complete.  How can I send the
> results of this to the rm command.  The redirection that I tried did not
> seem to work.
> 

#rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *`


This worked nicely at the command line, however when I put in into a script
I received the error rm :too few arguments

Any other thoughts?

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