On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:35, Michael Martinell wrote: > Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? > > I am trying to delete files based upon content. As an example I have > files called log1, log2, log3 > > Log 1 contains the words “Processing completed correctly” and can be > deleted. > > 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 -f $(grep -li “Processing completed correctly” * | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq ) That will get you the proper command. Now run along and read up on "bash" with "man bash" It is a good read for those that don't understand it, but want to use its functionality. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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