On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+0000, RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 +0000 > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > ls -1 | xargs rm > > but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use the xargs -n switch here. The above will also try to 'rm' directories, which won't work. Instead I would use 'find': find . -type f -depth 1 -delete This will also work with filenames with spaces. Or the scenic route, using xargs, with one rm per file (slower): find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 rm -f (The "scenic route" is useful if you want to do something else with the files instead of deleting them with rm.) Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
