Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:25:44 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'rm' Can not delete files Message-ID: <20120209032544.GA58560@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20120207231716.31aa8bc3@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <1237723287.20120207235924@yandex.ru> <4F31A260.20109@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120207231716.31aa8bc3@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+0000, RW (rwmaillists@googlemail.com) wrote: > On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 +0000 > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > ls -1 | xargs rm > > but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use the xargs -n switch here. The above will also try to 'rm' directories, which won't work. Instead I would use 'find': find . -type f -depth 1 -delete This will also work with filenames with spaces. Or the scenic route, using xargs, with one rm per file (slower): find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 rm -f (The "scenic route" is useful if you want to do something else with the files instead of deleting them with rm.) Regards Andrew
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