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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!its.hooked.net!localhost From: rcb@hooked.net (Rich Bland) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Humble BSD 4.4 Newbie seeks assistance... Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 05:58:34 GMT Organization: ISH Roadkill Anonymous Lines: 44 Message-ID: <40moma$h94_001@news.hooked.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: worm.hooked.net To: All X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 I've recently struggled through the installation for BSD 4.4 which I got on a CD. I'm about ready to wade into kernel tweaking, NFS installation/config, etc. I've got a couple of basic questions though. I've purchased the 4.4 BSD set of books from O'Reilly and Associates, and have gone through them looking for my answers to these questions but havent been having any luck. First question. I hacked the install 'cause the CD install routines wouldnt work (big suprise). But, I've got all these 00_TRANS.TBL files to delete. Been doing it manually, but it sucks. Tried various combos of rm -r, to no avail. Hacked through the 'find' command and redirected the output showing the full path name of each file to delete. Cant seem to get the rm command to take the redirected input from this file, or pipe the output from the find command to the rm command. Deleting these one by one is not only a pain, but an insult. Whats the proper syntax to redirect a input for the rm command? Tried "find / -name 00_TRANS.TBL | rm -f" which just gives me the error message showing proper syntax use of the command. Tried "rm -f < rm.dat" and got the same result. Puzzled to say the least, and dont want to have to go to the trouble of writing a c shell script... Second question. I cant seem to get the system prompt to display the current working directory. Help with this would be nice. Thanks in advance for any suggestions provided. Rich Rich Bland rcb@hooked.net In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.