'rm' Can not delete files

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

Matthew> As you have discovered, it is very easy to overload the argument list.
Matthew> There are many ways around this, but one of the best ones is to use
Matthew> xargs(1). eg:

Matthew> 	% ls -1 | xargs rm

No need for the -1 there.  Whenever ls is not going to the terminal, it
defaults to classic -1 behavior.

Compare:

% ls

with

% ls | cat

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