close 43657
thanks
Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 9/27/20 8:58 PM, Amit Rao wrote:
> > There's a limit? My first attempt didn't use a wildcard; i attempted to
> > delete a directory.
>
> 'rm dir' fails because 'rm' by default leaves directories alone.
>
> > My second attempt was rm -rf dir/*
>
> If
On 9/27/20 8:58 PM, Amit Rao wrote:
There's a limit? My first attempt didn't use a wildcard; i attempted to delete
a directory.
'rm dir' fails because 'rm' by default leaves directories alone.
My second attempt was rm -rf dir/*
If "dir" has too many files that will fail due to shell
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
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
