On Jan 05 12:13, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But why do you want to do it in perl ( why not rm -f $dir/* $dir/.* ) > , If you are removing all the 4000 files everytime it might make sense > to remove the entire directory and recreate it. > > > Ram >
That is what I thought initially, but I ran into "Argument list too long" errors, so I think there is a limit of the number of returns from a wildcard (to avoid overrunning? I guess). The idea of loading it all into an array and deleting it one at a time makes sense, but only half of the 4000 entries are being loaded into DIR. I can't just blow away and recreate the folder as it is shared via samba and netatalk, and the clients' mount mappings would break. Charles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
