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From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
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To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problem deleting files
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--On July 2, 2018 at 4:48:31 AM +0900 Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> 
wrote:

> From: Paul Schmehl <paul.schmehl@gmail.com>
> Subject: Problem deleting files
> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:13:30 -0500
>
>> 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.
>
> Try following command.
>
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
>

It took more than 24 hours, but the files are all gone. Thank you for the 
useful suggestion.

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