Re: [Ilugc] a safe way to rm -rf *

[Manvendra Bhangui]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<law...@thenilgiris.com>wrote:

>
> cd /var/lib/mod_tile/default
> rm -rf *
>

Also rm -rf can be replaced by
find /var/lib/mod_tile/default -type f -exec rm -f {} \;


The above find command avoids the use of wildcard and hence the error
"argument list too long" can be avoided in case the directory gets filled up
with thousands of files
-- 
Regards Manvendra - http://www.indimail.org
Sent from Chennai, TN, India
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