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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:42:46 +0100
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To: Dennis Koegel <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de>
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Subject: Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:19:39AM +0100, Dennis Koegel typed:
<snip>
> find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100

or just 

ls | xargs rm