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From: "Derek" <derek@durham.net>
To: "Jean-Yves Lefort" <jylefort@brutele.be>, <questions@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Directory containing many files
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:43:06 -0400
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> Can some problems arise by having that many files in one >
single directory?

I have had issues with (bash) shell globbing.  For example the
command:

rm *

may return:
argument list too long

There may be another way around it, but I would then re-write my
command as:

ls | while read file; do rm $file; done

and do specific selection between the ls and while with a grep.
Just something I've experienced.

Derek


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