On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> "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
technically, it's the *shell* that's running into a command
line limit in trying to construct the command. it does not
depend on the actual command.
rday
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