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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:03:41PM -0600, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
>Bryan Childs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> I tried pruning the pending directory (and responses) manually with
>> a blanket "rm -f *" only to be told "rm: too many arguments"
>
>Sounds like the load broke something in your operating system, not in
>TMDA.

That's just rm complaining, not the OS.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/bigdir $ echo * | wc -w
  33327
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/bigdir $ rm *
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Note that I tried this test with "only" 10000 files, and rm ate them.
There's no problem with 'echo' because it's built into the shell.  You can
do the 'rm *' in spite of rm's limit this way:

echo * | xargs rm
- -- 
Kyle Hasselbacher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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