[olug] Nesting commands at command line

[Nick Walter]

There is a find specific method of doing this, but the nice general way
to iteratively deal with multiline output from a command is to use a
little shell script along the lines of

for X in `find /var/www -name bad_file`
do
  echo "Removing $X"
  rm -f $X
done

Nick Walter


On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 09:53, Craig Wolf wrote:
> I am not finding the answer at google probably because I am not searching on the right terms.  I need to pipe a multiline output as the input to another command and I can't remember/find the answer to do it.
> I need to find a file in all locations: find /var/www -name bad_file
> I then need to remove those files.
> 
> Any and all help appreciated!
> 
> 
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
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> 
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