Re: [tlug] deleting a local list of filenames from remote server

["Clemens Schwaighofer" <gullevek@example.com>]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:56, Charles Muller
<cmuller-lst@example.com> wrote:
> I swear this worked two days ago when I first tried it. I didn't get any error
> messages and the files were indeed deleted.
>
>    scp  /dicts/ddb/pcache-update user@example.com:public_html/ddb/pcache/pcache-update;
>
>    ssh user@example.com 'cd public_html/ddb/pcache && xargs rm'  < pcache-update;
>
> Now when I run it, the file obviously get copied to the server, in the
> proper directory, but for some reason, the file is not found
>
>   chuck@example.com:~/bin$ pcache_update_ddb
>   pcache-update                                 100% 2257     2.2KB/s   00:00
>
>   /home/chuck/bin/pcache_update_ddb: line 5: pcache-update: No such file or directory
>
>   chuck@example.com:~/bin$

because you pass the file outside the ''. You have to put the whole
command, including the '<' part into the quotes

ssh user@example.com 'cd public_html/ddb/pcache && xargs rm  < pcache-update';

-- 
Clemens Schwaighofer
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