On 19.05.2006, at 21:39, Ken Irving wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:10:41PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Ok, using fdupes -f I have created a file that contains a list of
all
duplicate files. So, what command can a run against that file to
delete
all the files listed in it?
Or since I know that fdupes -f works, could I just do something
like:
fdupes -f ./ | rm *
or would that rm everything?
The latter. Try xargs(1), e.g.,
fdupes -f ./ | xargs rm
This is strange. I used:
fdupes -f ./ | xargs rm
and it worked great!!!
Now I need to do the same thing for another mail directory, so I
moved into it and issued the same command and I get:
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
What's up with that?