Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:47:22 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm -rf question Message-ID: <20010524144722.35AE2380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200105240840.f4O8ekT07049@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > 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. Incidently, "find /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david -delete" would have worked as well, and would not have deleted the top directory. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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