Re: basic command pipe question

Todd Zullinger writes:

Don Russell wrote:

I need some basic CLI help. :-) I've googled, and read, and I can't
find how to erase a bunch of files in one go.

Specifically, I need a command that will erase *.zip files,
regardless of the text case of the .zip part....

So far, I have
   ls | grep -iE \\.zip$

That gives me the correct list of files.... but I don't know how to
get rm to process that list.. It doesn't look like rm has an option
to read the file name from stdin, it's expecting the file name as a
CLI argument.

This is one of those things that you could do a whole lot of ways and
I'm sure more than a few people will provide options.  I'm looking
forward to learning a few new things out of this too (it always
happens, no matter how well I think I know the possibilities :).

Here are a few ways:

    ls | grep -iE \\.zip$ | xargs rm -f

You could use find instead of ls and grep too.  This example is
almost straight from the xargs man page:

    find -iname '*.zip' | xargs rm -f

Or, using some bash command substitution:

    rm -f $(ls | grep -iE \\.zip$)

WTF????????

Is everyone on drugs, here?

Or did:

rm -f *.zip

suddenly stop working, for some stupid reason?

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