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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: deleted huge directory
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> Don't know if this helps, but the reason I suggested echo'ing * (all
> files, of course) into a file is to see if you could do this:
> rm 'cat /place/some/file/list'
> or something similar; I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to piping
> stuff from a file.
> Someone else?  Can this be done, and could it work?

I tried that command, it is still running. Probably hung. :( If I knew the
file names of that directory(anyone?, /var/news/spool/control/cancel) I
would probably use wildcards.