Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 00:51:23 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "rm -rf *" - "argument list too long" Message-ID: <20000508005123.F559@netlink.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <39160161.4BCFEFE3@gorean.org> References: <20000507201410.M540@netlink.co.uk> <39160161.4BCFEFE3@gorean.org>
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On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 04:50:57PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > First, ignore the overly complicated and potentially dangerous answers > so far on this thread. :) Second, think about it for a minute. If "*" > provides a list that's too long for rm to handle, why not break it up > into smaller chunks? Good suggestion... And it's what I did (though I didn't mention it). However, what I found was that it was still taking lots of time to "break it up"... eg. I'd try rm *54* and it wouldn't work, so I'd try rm *53* and it wouldn't work... but then, rm *52* would. I didn't try using a [range], so your suggestion was helpful. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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