On 03/07/2003 @ 09:52, Arvind wrote:
> each time i issue the command, i am getting an error.
>
> # rm -rf *
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
There are too many files in the directory, and the shell cannot pattern match all of
them. You can do one of two things:
ls -1 |xargs rm -rf
or cd into the parent dir, and then rm -rf <the dir containing all those files>.
Regards,
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