From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 23 4: 5:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from casimir.physics.purdue.edu (casimir.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE6F37B424 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 04:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@physics.purdue.edu) Received: by casimir.physics.purdue.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D7EB18A4F; Wed, 23 May 2001 06:05:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 06:05:49 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Storms of Perfection Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm -rf question Message-ID: <20010523060549.Z19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Storms of Perfection , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010523054956.00a98f90@208.141.46.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i 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 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.18 sparc64 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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