Hello Phillip, > I've received a couple perl scripts from a few different people. I can't > use any of them until this evening due to the current load of the machines > though. Last night I ended up doing a strings on the directory, and taking > its output into a for loop removing the files.
if you have a bit of time to spare, take a look at the xargs(1) manpage. Using xargs instead of a for loop would have saved you a lot of time and system load (and a little bit of typing :-) Wolfgang _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"