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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting list files commands Post 302185913 by era on Wednesday 16th of April 2008 05:27:50 AM
Old 04-16-2008
rm doesn't read standard input, it expects the files to remove on its command line. Use xargs or backticks.

Code:
rm `ls -ltr | grep 2004....\.txt$`

or

Code:
ls -ltr | grep 2004....\.txt$ | xargs rm

Try it with "echo" instead of "rm" to make sure that you're doing the right thing.
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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