Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 06:05:49 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Storms of Perfection <ancient@outloud.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm -rf question Message-ID: <20010523060549.Z19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010523054956.00a98f90@208.141.46.12>; from ancient@outloud.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:51:40AM -0500 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010523054956.00a98f90@208.141.46.12>
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:51:40AM -0500, Storms of Perfection wrote: > gary@trouble:~$ rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david/ > Display all 2275 possibilities? (y or n) > gary@trouble:~$ rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david/* > bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long > > Is this a bug with rm? I've never come accross this on -CURRENT or -STABLE > for that matter.. No. It's a safety feature to prevent your shell from using too much memory to do the globbing you asked for (the "*"). This has nothing whatsoever to do with rm(1). -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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