On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:36 -0600, Nathan wrote: > You can also use a bash for loop: > > for myfile in *.txt ; do rm "$myfile" ; done
or: find *.txt | while read f; do rm "$f" ; done That avoids the problem of the commandline being too long (shell expansion will sometimes cause your command to fail if there are too many files. Michael > > Putting $myfile in quotes ougt to prevent that "spaces in filename" > problem that Kimball mentioned. > > ~ Nathan > > On 3/19/07, Eduardo Sanz-Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Today I have tried to remove 3500 files at once using the argument > > expantion of bash: "rm *.txt" > > There was an error: > > *bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long > > *Here is the explanation and the workaround: > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
