[nflug] rm Limitations

[Robert Meyer]

Hmmm... how many ways to do this... If you can't think of at least three, you're not thinking hard enough :-)

find . -type f | perl -ne 'chop; unlink;'

Cheers!

Bob

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----- Original Message ----
From: Joshua Johnson <joshpauljohnson at gmail.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:37:52 PM
Subject: Re: [nflug] rm Limitations

Either rm the whole directory or (like Frank said) iterate through them:

for file in `ls`; do rm -f "$file"; done

This has been a discussion on here before and there are faster ways to do this. They escape me right now. The problem is that there is a limit to how many arguments you can give on the command line.


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Franklin Kumro Jr <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:

Iterate over the dir listing and rm each file

Should work!

-Frank


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have a BUNCH of files I need to clean out of a directory, but when I execute 'rm *' I get an "Argument list too long" error message.  Is there a way around this?  I get the same when mv'ing or cp'ing to /dev/null as well.
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