Yeah, that looks better. < would redirect the contents of a file. Pipe is for a command.

Dan Dubovik wrote:
 yes | rm -i *txt

seems to be the proper syntax.

[r...@localhost yestest]# rm -i file.* < yes
-bash: yes: No such file or directory

Dan

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric Cope <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Thanks, the yes command was what I was looking for.
    Thanks everyone.

    Eric


    On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM, <[email protected]
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        #unalias rm
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