On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:58 +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > $ for dirname in `cat studentlist`; do rm -rf $dirname/*; done
cat studentlist | while read dirname; do rm -rf $dirname/*; done
this will cope more elegantly with large numbers of line in the slug
student list file. The line
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