On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have managed to runout of inodes on a partition du to a buggy routine.
>
>I know what I want to delete, but when I do rm -f * in the problem
>directory it comes back with "Argument list too long"
>
>Can anyone think of a way around this one?
Use this instead:
ls | xargs rm -f
Or if you want to do "rm -rf *" use:
find . | xargs rm -f
TTYL
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