From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 25 14:17:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA24258 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu (scheme.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA24253 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 26819 invoked by uid 27268); 23 Oct 1997 22:40:00 -0000 Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19971023224000.26817.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu> From: Jason Alan Nordwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory In-Reply-To: shawn@luke.cpl.net on 10/22/1997 to questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk wildcard exapansion will not work, due to kernel buffer limits (I think). Maybe find would handle it better? find /the/dir/name -type f -print | xargs -n100 rm -f but first try the easy answer: rm -rf /the/dir/name or some modification of the two. If neither of these work you could try to hack up something yourself that would surely work. jay -- Join the FreeBSD Revolution! http://xcf.berkeley.edu/~nordwick