problems with rm

[scott comer]

generally, this might be a shell problem rather than an rm problem, but
here it is:

using bash on some recent version of cygwin build:

ufind -name \*.class > x

rm `cat x`

this will fail if x is too large. there is absolutely no reason for
it to fail. maybe if x
was, say, 50 meg or something. but 49k is not unreasonable.

short of fixing bash, perhaps a parameter to rm which says the following
file is
a list of files to be removed:

rm -l x

(that's dash-ell).

this would be more efficient, anyway. what i do now is horribly
inefficient:

ufind -name \*.class -exec rm \{} \;

scott out