On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Dennis Koegel wrote:
find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100
Although xargs is the most versatile solution for when having too many
items listed, for just deleting find itself can do it..
find /foo/bar -n "" -delete
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:19:39AM +0100, Dennis Koegel typed:
> find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100
or just
ls | xargs rm
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Mipam wrote:
Hi,
I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message:
/bin/rm: Argument list too long.
So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs.
Any hints exept for manual labour?
Bye,
Mipam.
I gather it's rm * that's not working?
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Mipam wrote:
> I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message:
> /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
You probably did "rm *", and * expanded to too many files.
One way is to simply remove the directory completely (rm -
Hi,
I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message:
/bin/rm: Argument list too long.
So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs.
Any hints exept for manual labour?
Bye,
Mipam.
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