[nflug] rm Limitations

Franklin Kumro Jr fkumro at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 14:22:30 EDT 2008


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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>
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Frank
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