Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:47:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "rm -rf *" - "argument list too long" Message-ID: <20000507214738.B79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000507214635.A79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000507201410.M540@netlink.co.uk> <20000507214635.A79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst wrote: > Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > >> I'm in a directory with a tonne of files I wish to delete. >> I type "rm -rf *", but it won't work, it gives "/bin/rm: Argument >> list too long". So how can I delete these many files ? > > find . -delete Sorry, I forgot to mention that these aren't quite the same... My version will delete files whose names begin with a dot, yours won't as the glob expansion won't include those files. Fixing that is left as an exercise. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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