> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:20:16 -0500 > From: Raleigh Rinehart <[email protected]> > CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > How long is the original full list of files? > > This particular list is 46430 characters (according to wc -c). So in > this case it would seem I cannot directly invoke a single rm.
No, but 2 sub-lists would do. Perhaps you could find a way of dividing it into two in some non-arbitrary way. > The original issue manifested itself several years ago while were still > on 3.80. That is when I originally went to a chunky solution. I don't > recall the lengths of the lists back then but I'm fairly sure they were > greater than 8k and less than 32k in length. Perhaps there was a bug in > that version? Yes, 3.80 did not support Windows too well. > It worked but wasn't very elegant. Also, the problem has become more > pronounced as we have modified our build system in such a way that the > path's are longer If the leading directories are the problem, then you could chdir to the directory where the files live, and then the rm's command line could be made shorter. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
