Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:41:06 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'rm' Can not delete files Message-ID: <20274.49602.237856.78617@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHhngE3F7PYNuOfKk1bogzpXw1pjBzhtB_6q-1gqR7=OPSh_3Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <1237723287.20120207235924@yandex.ru> <4F31A15C.3050506@gmail.com> <3DFDF5C0-2D39-4A88-B3B5-7D236A7FC4DA@dont-panic.org> <CAHhngE3F7PYNuOfKk1bogzpXw1pjBzhtB_6q-1gqR7=OPSh_3Q@mail.gmail.com>
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David Brodbeck writes: > > What helps me sometimes is wrapping it up: > > > > for i in *; do rm $i; done > > Won't that just expand the * and result in the same problem? It > seems like you've just moved the problem from the rm statement to > the for statement. If the problem is the command line to rm being too long, this will work. Yes, the '*" will get expanded to the list of files ... but that will happen _within_ the running shell. (Using the services of glob(3) or something similar.) The command line to "rm" will have a single file-name, and should not be a problem. Robert Huff
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