Re: rm - Argument list too long

On Sunday 29 January 2006 03:27, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2006, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: for files in *.* do rm $files done Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. Instead, use something

Re: rm - Argument list too long

On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: for files in *.* do rm $files done Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. Instead, use something like: find . -name 'sess.*' -delete -- Kirk Strauser pgpepCmOuaBna.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rm - Argument list too long

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: for files in *.* do rm $files done Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. Instead, use something like: find . -name 'sess.*' -delete While that's good advice,

rm - Argument list too long

server20# pwd /tmp server20# ls -l sess* /bin/ls: Argument list too long. server20# rm -f sess* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. server20# Any idea how to correct this ? Regards, Yujin www.netfreehost.com

Re: rm - Argument list too long

-RELEASE #1: Tue Oct 18 06:28:41 GMT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER20 i386 server20# pwd /tmp server20# ls -l sess* /bin/ls: Argument list too long. server20# rm -f sess* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. server20# Any idea how to correct

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER20 i386 server20# pwd /tmp server20# ls -l sess* /bin/ls: Argument list too long. server20# rm -f sess* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. server20# Any idea how to correct this ? man find

Re: rm - Argument list too long

I am getting error Argument list too long. when deleting files from /tmp directory. server20# pwd /tmp server20# ls -l sess* /bin/ls: Argument list too long. server20# rm -f sess* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. server20

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Dennis Koegel wrote: find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100 Although xargs is the most versatile solution for when having too many items listed, for just deleting find itself can do it.. find /foo/bar -n mask -delete ___

/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Hi, I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs. Any hints exept for manual labour? Bye, Mipam. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Mipam wrote: I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. You probably did rm *, and * expanded to too many files. One way is to simply remove the directory completely (rm -r /foo/bar

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Mipam wrote: Hi, I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs. Any hints exept for manual labour? Bye, Mipam. I gather it's rm * that's not working? If so, try

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:19:39AM +0100, Dennis Koegel typed: snip find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100 or just ls | xargs rm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To