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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Storms of Perfection <ancient@outloud.org>
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Subject: Re: rm -rf question
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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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