Hi, > I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around > deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too > long' > message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with > program*.
What about
find ./ -xdev -type f -name "program*" -exec rm {} \;
or
for file in `echo program*`; do rm $file; done
Dirk
