basic command pipe question

[Sam Varshavchik]

Todd Zullinger writes:

> Don Russell wrote:
>> I need some basic CLI help. :-) I've googled, and read, and I can't
>> find how to erase a bunch of files in one go.
>>
>> Specifically, I need a command that will erase *.zip files,
>> regardless of the text case of the .zip part....
>>
>> So far, I have
>>    ls | grep -iE \\.zip$
>>
>> That gives me the correct list of files.... but I don't know how to
>> get rm to process that list.. It doesn't look like rm has an option
>> to read the file name from stdin, it's expecting the file name as a
>> CLI argument.
> 
> This is one of those things that you could do a whole lot of ways and
> I'm sure more than a few people will provide options.  I'm looking
> forward to learning a few new things out of this too (it always
> happens, no matter how well I think I know the possibilities :).
> 
> Here are a few ways:
> 
>     ls | grep -iE \\.zip$ | xargs rm -f
> 
> You could use find instead of ls and grep too.  This example is
> almost straight from the xargs man page:
> 
>     find -iname '*.zip' | xargs rm -f
> 
> Or, using some bash command substitution:
> 
>     rm -f $(ls | grep -iE \\.zip$)


WTF????????

Is everyone on drugs, here?

Or did:

rm -f *.zip

suddenly stop working, for some stupid reason?

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