It would seem using somthing like xargs may be appropriate.
xargs <studentlist rm -<switches>
Xargs will ensure the command argument buffer is chopped into appropriate sized
chunks.
Cheers
Shane
---- Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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