[nflug] rm Limitations

Erek Dyskant erek at blumenthals.com
Mon Jun 23 14:08:11 EDT 2008


ls -1 | xargs rm

--Erek


On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:42 -0400, Robert Wolfe 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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