Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

[Jim Thompson]

Jim Thompson wrote:

Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
ne at a time, & I am sure everyone here knows how to do this.  For 
example:

for i in m*; do rm m*; done

still requires bash to glob all 500,000 files.   Fails for the same 
reaons.

note my error here.  Bash is OK globbing 500,000 files (twice!), but the 
(exec of) '/bin/rm' will fail with E2BIG.

jim