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Subject: Re: 'rm' Can not delete files
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What helps me sometimes is wrapping it up:

for i in *; do rm $i; done

Best,
Ingo

P.S.:
Helps also with whitespaces in the filename where 'rm *' fails too.

On 07.02.2012, at 14:10 , Rares Aioanei wrote:

> On 02/07/2012 11:59 PM, =CA=EE=ED=FC=EA=EE=E2 =C5=E2=E3=E5=ED=E8=E9 =
wrote:
>> # rm *
>> /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
>>=20
>>=20
>> in this directory about 25000 files,
>> but actually there is only one argument to rm it is '*' sign.
>>=20
>> Why rm get list of all files in directore instead of deleting one by =
one?
>>=20
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> AFAIR, the shell expands * to every match , so from this point of view =
it is equivalent to the 25000 files. Try 'rm -f [a-d]*' , then [e-h]* or =
similar until you get them all.
>=20
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