Re: Arguments too long

[Gordon Messmer]

"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jon Nichols wrote:
> 
> > sometimes, in directories with hundreds of thousands of files
> > i'll try a big glob rm and get an error like 'Arguments too long'.
> 
> man xargs. Note the -n option. Then try something like:
> 
>         ls *March* | xargs -n 10 rm

Are you sure?  I think that "ls" will give you the error: Argument list
too long

MSG


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