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From: "Olivier Cortes" <olive@deep-ocean.net>
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Subject: RE: "rm -rf *" - "argument list too long"
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 22:33:06 +0200
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for FILE in `ls -1 DIR/`
do
	rm "$FILE"
done

shell script. it doesn't work if files have spaces in their names.

have fun :)

Olivier

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]De la part de Darren Wyn
> Rees
> Envoyé : dimanche 7 mai 2000 22:14
> À : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Objet : "rm -rf *" - "argument list too long"
>
>
> 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 ?
>
> I can "cd ..", and then "rm -rf <directory name>", and that works.
>
> However, what if I didn't wish to remove directories.  In that
> case, what would I do to remove the files ?
>
> Thanks
>
> darren
>
> PS. (I'm finding it takes some getting used to putting
> the operands to many commands immediately after the command.
> Why is this so with FreeBSD? With Linux I can type 'rm * -rf' etc.)
>
>
>
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