Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:43:06 -0400 From: "Derek" <derek@durham.net> To: "Jean-Yves Lefort" <jylefort@brutele.be>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Directory containing many files Message-ID: <018401c258e0$c2165fc0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> References: <20020910132907.1aabde58.jylefort@brutele.be>
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> Can some problems arise by having that many files in one > single directory? I have had issues with (bash) shell globbing. For example the command: rm * may return: argument list too long There may be another way around it, but I would then re-write my command as: ls | while read file; do rm $file; done and do specific selection between the ls and while with a grep. Just something I've experienced. Derek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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