Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:40:00 -0000 From: Jason Alan Nordwick <nordwick@scheme.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <19971023224000.26817.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: shawn@luke.cpl.net on 10/22/1997 to questions@FreeBSD.ORG <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022213636.10104A-100000@luke.cpl.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022213636.10104A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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wildcard exapansion will not work, due to kernel buffer limits (I think). Maybe find would handle it better? find /the/dir/name -type f -print | xargs -n100 rm -f but first try the easy answer: rm -rf /the/dir/name or some modification of the two. If neither of these work you could try to hack up something yourself that would surely work. jay -- Join the FreeBSD Revolution! http://xcf.berkeley.edu/~nordwick
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