Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:57:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971023215639.15269B-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023020754.29151F-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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> I think that, at some level, I knew there was a limit like that. > In that case, you're going to have some trouble. Maybe do a series of > ls's or echo's, echoing a* > file1, b* > file2, etc, depending on what the > files are named. If an echo * can't work, I'd guess an rm * wouldn't > either. You'll have to find some way to piecemeal this up ( I would say > info files that contain the dir list; my pet project of the night) and rm > 'cat <blah>' for however many files you have. I think someone will have > to give a hint what's in there as far as file names are concerned. The > only news server I have access to doesn't have a directory like that > there. "find /var/news/spool/control/cancel | xargs rm -rf" worked. Well, is working. Its still deleting. :)
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