Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:08:07 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Storms of Perfection <ancient@outloud.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm -rf question Message-ID: <20010523130807.A19223@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> In-Reply-To: <20010523060549.Z19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:05:49AM -0500 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010523054956.00a98f90@208.141.46.12> <20010523060549.Z19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
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Thus spake Will Andrews (will@physics.purdue.edu): > No. It's a safety feature to prevent your shell from using too much > memory to do the globbing you asked for (the "*"). This has nothing > whatsoever to do with rm(1). It's xargs job to workaround that: ls | xargs rm -rf Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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