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# 8  
Old 04-16-2008
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Originally Posted by era
(Weird, double post, sorry.)
era,

thanks a million Smilie it works!

wee
# 9  
Old 04-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by lweegp
era,

thanks a million Smilie it works!

wee
ooops....it does not work...got the following:

spids111% ls -ltr | grep 2004....\.txt$ | xargs rm
rm: illegal option -- w
rm: illegal option -- -
rm: illegal option -- w
rm: illegal option -- -
rm: illegal option -- -
rm: illegal option -- -
usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...

somewhere went wrong? apologies...Smilie

wee
# 10  
Old 04-16-2008
Yes, take out the options from ls, you just want the file names -- it's trying to remove the permissions, the owners, and the date stamps, too. Oops.
# 11  
Old 04-17-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
Yes, take out the options from ls, you just want the file names -- it's trying to remove the permissions, the owners, and the date stamps, too. Oops.
hi era,

sorry for the trouble...Smilie

i try the following:

spids111% grep 2004....\.txt$ | xargs echo

but nothing returns...some part went wrong? thanks.


wee
# 12  
Old 04-17-2008
You took out too much. You still need ls to list the files, only not in "long format".

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

I put in an "echo" so you see what it's doing. Take out the echo if the result looks correct.
# 13  
Old 04-17-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by lweegp
hi era,

sorry for the trouble...Smilie

i try the following:

spids111% grep 2004....\.txt$ | xargs echo

but nothing returns...some part went wrong? thanks.


wee
hi era...wonderful!! it works perfectly fine now! thanks so much!!Smilie
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