Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:40:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -rf question Message-ID: <200105240840.f4O8ekT07049@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010523054956.00a98f90@208.141.46.12> <20010523060549.Z19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010523130807.A19223@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>
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Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> wrote: > It's xargs job to workaround that: > > ls | xargs rm -rf rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david should have worked as well. It also removes the directory itself, yes, but since it's then rm(1) that does the directory handling, there's no longer a limitation in the arg list that applies. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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