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From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk>
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Subject: "rm -rf *" - "argument list too long"
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I'm in a directory with a tonne of files I wish to delete.
I type "rm -rf *", but it won't work, it gives "/bin/rm: Argument
list too long".  So how can I delete these many files ?

I can "cd ..", and then "rm -rf <directory name>", and that works.

However, what if I didn't wish to remove directories.  In that
case, what would I do to remove the files ?

Thanks

darren

PS. (I'm finding it takes some getting used to putting
the operands to many commands immediately after the command.
Why is this so with FreeBSD? With Linux I can type 'rm * -rf' etc.) 



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