On Friday 07 Mar 2003 6:04 pm, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> --- Arvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i have 19201 files in my directory.
> >
> > each time i issue the command, i am getting an error.
> >
> > # rm -rf *
> > bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>
> Even though Arvind has already got his answer I just felt like giving
> the "right" ways of handling the "unix" problem ;).
>
> find . -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
> cd .. ; rm -rf <name of the directory>
>
> I believe the suggested answer of using xargs wont work since it will
> again pass 19201 args to rm ??
No. xargs will construct a command using a line in input and pattern. So it
will call rm 19201 times with one file at a time. Slow but better than not
working..
It is in essense, for i in `ls *` ; do rm -f "$i"; done. But I don't know if
bash/sh/ksh will choke om having so many items in the item list.
But you got the idea right?
Shridhar
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