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Date:      Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:59:24 +0200
From:      =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= <kes-kes@yandex.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   'rm' Can not delete files
Message-ID:  <1237723287.20120207235924@yandex.ru>

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# rm *
/bin/rm: Argument list too long.


in this directory about 25000 files,
but actually there is only one argument to rm it is '*' sign.

Why rm get list of all files in directore instead of deleting one by one?




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