Al'shaebani, Bassam wrote:
>Hello All,
>I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
>deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
>long'
>message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
>program*.
>There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to
>something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message.
>
>
That's a shell issue, not necessarily an AIX issue. The problem is that
the shell is responsible for expanding the commandline parameters. Thus
typing *, the shell expands that to ALL the file that match (i.e. all of
them).
For instances like this, there are probably more ways than I have
fingers, but genrally one that will always work is using find. e.g.
find <dir> -name '*' -exec rm {} \;
>Thanks......
>
>Regards,
>Bassam
>
>
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