[Nottingham] saved by the shell ?

[Andrew Etches]

> i have shell access to the server so was hoping i could use some command-line 
> trickery to remove all messages with a given subject line.
> 
> after a bit of googling i figure i need something along the lines of :-
> 	grep "My Subject Line" ./* | xargs rm
> but i'm getting an error "bin/grep: Argument list too long"

Perhaps something really ugly like:
for a in *; do echo $a | perl -e '$b = <stdin>; if($b =~ /your regex/){ unlink $b; }'; done;
(told you it was ugly...)

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