[plug] Text conversion/large directory removal help

[Neil Hunt]

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Neil Hunt wrote:

> Hi,  I have a rather large list of users on my backup disk that I want to
> delete.  The way I got this list was to do a diff on the two home
> directories and pipe that list to a file.  What I have now is a large list
> (over 500) with < in front of every name.  What I would like is something
> to remove this list of users so that I can free up the space on my backup
> drive.  (This is a debian system).  Any suggestions are appreciated, and
> welcome.

Amazing what you'll find out when desperate... :) i experimented and
office:/home# rf -rf `cat /root/home.diff` worked a treat... :)

Neil


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