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From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: rm -rf question
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Thus spake Will Andrews (will@physics.purdue.edu):

> 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).

It's xargs job to workaround that:

ls | xargs rm -rf 

Alex
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