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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only "argument list too long" as feedback.
Is there a way to go round this problem?
I have CentOS 5.2.
- Jussi
try something like:
for i in /var/amavis/tmp/*
do
rm -rf $i
done
it should be:
for i in `ls /var/amavis/tmp`
do
rm $i
done
These shouldn't make any difference. The limit is on the size of the
expanded shell command line. The original example won't cause it. The
ones that expand a list with a * or the output of ls may. The right
solution is to let rm recurse with -r or to potentially long list to xargs.
--
Les Mikesell
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