From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 15: 0:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E2637BFD8 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 15:00:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12oXxi-000LnQ-00; Sun, 07 May 2000 21:47:38 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12oXxi-000D8X-00; Sun, 07 May 2000 21:47:38 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:47:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Darren Wyn Rees Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "rm -rf *" - "argument list too long" Message-ID: <20000507214738.B79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000507201410.M540@netlink.co.uk> <20000507214635.A79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000507214635.A79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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