Julian Yap wrote:
Matt,
I think that error message is because there are too many "m*" files. I
think it's possibly something to do with file handling limits. Possibly.
I'd probably do this:
cd [directory with 500,000 m* files]
for FILES in `find -maxdepth 1 | grep '^./mgetty'`
do
rm -v $FILES
done
What that will do is find and remove files which begin with mgetty one by
one, not as a wildcard removal.
If you're feeling hesitant, I'd back up the directory first if possible.
Then instead of using the line 'rm -v $FILES', do 'rm -iv $FILES'. This
will give you an interactive removal which will prompt you before any
removal.
You're going to be hitting 'y' for a long time. Lets say you can get
10/second, thats 50,000 seconds, or the better part of 12 hours.
