This might also have problems since * is expanded by shell to reflect
filenames in that directory. Shell might not be able to expand huge
number of files in the directory. Better is to use find.
find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
Amitay.
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 22:18, Chandrashekhar Bhosle wrote:
> for i in *; do rm -f $i; done
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:45 +0530, Zainul M Charbiwala
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 1 Jun 2004 15:01:17 -0000
> >
> > "Anand Pandurang Shelake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > > I am silent user of the group. I am facing a problem for
> > >deleteing mails which are queued by sendmail function. I stopped
> > >the sendmail service. I tried rm * but I am getting message
> > >segmentation fault. The mails are in queue are around more than
> > >100000. Can Anybody help me in this for deleting the mails.
> >
> > rm might have a problem taking 100000 filenames on the command line.
> > The files are usually numbered with a common prefix. Try deleting them
> > in sets of 100-500. Its tedious but it'll get the job done.
> >
> > If you're a scripter, writing a one-line Perl script will do you
> > wonders.
> >
> > hth,
> > Zainul.
> >
> > >regds,
> > >Anand
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
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