On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:58:16AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > 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. >
maybe fdupes -f provided no output in this mail directory? A
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