[nflug] rm Limitations

[Joshua Johnson]

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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> > Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com>
> >
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> Frank
> Shenanigans!!
> I do the voodoo that I do do with sudo!
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