Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:46:35 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: awk question Message-ID: <880C4678-6B40-44C7-A643-4F2FD9F35DBC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20070306003506.GA12553@thought.org> References: <20070306003506.GA12553@thought.org>
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On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> Having found $9 , how do I /bin/rm it (using system()--yes??)
> in an awk one-liner?
I gather that you are looking under /var/db/pkg...?
> I'm trying to remove from packages from long ago and find and
> print them with
>
> ls -lt | awk '{if ($8 == 2006) print $9}';
>
> but what I want to remove the file pointed at by $9. I've tried
> FILE=ARGV[9]; and using FILE within my system() call, but no-joy.
> What's the magic here?
You could pipe the output of awk through "| xargs rm -rf"...but be
careful.
Putting it through "pkg_delete (-f)" might be safer.
--
-Chuck
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