ls program* | xargs -n 20 rm
Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Al'shaebani, Bassam wrote: > Hello All, > 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*. > There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to > something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message. > > Thanks...... > > Regards, > Bassam >