bug#43657: rm does not delete files

2020-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
On 9/27/20 1:00 PM, Amit Rao wrote: rm /path/* does not delete files if there are a lot (say 2000) of them in a single directory What does the command do instead? There is a limit as to how many arguments you can pass to 'rm'. If that's what you ran into, it's a problem with your kernel or

bug#43657: rm does not delete files

2020-09-27 Thread Amit Rao
rm /path/* does not delete files if there are a lot (say 2000) of them in a single directory version is 8.32 on ubuntu 20.04