Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:05:35 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Storms of Perfection <ancient@outloud.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -rf question Message-ID: <20010523120535.A51664@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010523054956.00a98f90@208.141.46.12>; from ancient@outloud.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:51:40AM -0500 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010523054956.00a98f90@208.141.46.12>
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:51:40AM -0500, Storms of Perfection wrote:
> gary@trouble:~$ rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david/
> Display all 2275 possibilities? (y or n)
> gary@trouble:~$ rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david/*
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>
> Is this a bug with rm? I've never come accross this on -CURRENT or -STABLE
> for that matter..
Nope - you've limited to 64Kb worth of arguments by default ("sysctl
kern.argmax" should show this). I guess you have some long filenames?
David.
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