Date: 23 Oct 97 15:09:22 +0100 From: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <211_9710240107@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022231126.26455B-100000@luke.cpl.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023011454.29151C-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> <19971023163601.11925@lemis.com>
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At 23 Oct 97 09:06:01 grog@lemis.com wrote Re: deleted huge directory in area "freebsd-questions"
g> You can ls larger directories than you can expand with *. The
g> latter is limited to ARG_MAX characters, including \0 at the end
g> of the strings. ARG_MAX is defined in
g> /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h:
g>
g> #define ARG_MAX 65536 /* max bytes for an
g> exec function */
g>
g> At a guess, the names in the directory are an order of magnitude
g> longer than that.
Isn't there a limit on inodes on a disk? The SVR3 I had before I believe had a limit of 65535.
Anyway, how about this:
for x in {A-z}
do
rm $x*
done
or even
for x in {A-z}
do
for y in {A-z}
do
rm $x$y
done
done
Also on SVR3 I had the option on ls not to order, but use the "natural" order. Perhaps this will work, if it means ls doesn't try to sort the files.
Leif Neland
leifn@image.dk
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