At 6:06 PM +0300 10/19/00, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: >Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, >and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) >that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. > >Let's also assume that when you type: > [root@db2 mail]# rm * >you get: > bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long > >any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) This should work. The syntax is for tcsh, but it should be similar in bash: # tcsh # foreach foo (*) # /bin/rm $foo # end -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- smalltime industries bringing you the latest in interplanetary transport technology, interactive web games, dada, art, poetry and pants. www.smalltime.com ...... visit early and often -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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