From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 24 1:50:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0DE37B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 01:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id KAA03915 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 May 2001 10:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4O8ekT07049; Thu, 24 May 2001 10:40:46 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:40:46 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200105240840.f4O8ekT07049@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: rm -rf question X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.current To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Langer 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