Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:23:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022232156.26455D-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023011454.29151C-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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> Don't know if this helps, but the reason I suggested echo'ing * (all > files, of course) into a file is to see if you could do this: > rm 'cat /place/some/file/list' > or something similar; I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to piping > stuff from a file. > Someone else? Can this be done, and could it work? I tried that command, it is still running. Probably hung. :( If I knew the file names of that directory(anyone?, /var/news/spool/control/cancel) I would probably use wildcards.
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