Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:13:30 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <paul.schmehl@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Problem deleting files Message-ID: <85B4CFC22AC0CA70B917D42D@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local>
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I have a problem with a directory full of files that I can't seem to delete.
rm * returns argument list too long. So does file *
find . -type f -exec rm [] \; returns rm: []: No such file or directory
over and over again.
ls | wc -l shows there's files there.
ls | wc -l
5023368
And ls -l actually lists the files:
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134 Jun 7 2015
sess_19n679i71prvju8nuqsvd727o4
If I try to delete that specific filename, it seems to work. (Running rm
twice returns no such file the second time.) Yet the file count remains the
same.
I also tried rm -fr | ls -l | awk '{print $9}', which returned a list of
filenames but didn't delete any of them.
Nothing I've tried to delete these files seems to work. What can I do to
get rid of these files?
Paul Schmehl
Independent Researcher
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