Re: Too many args for rm *.in

[Andrew White <andrew@white.com>]

Lots of ways!

Method 1: one-by-one
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cd /bad/dir/with/too/many/files
ls -a > /tmp/out
for f in `cat /tmp/out`; do rm -f $f; done

Method 2: divide and conquer
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rm -f [a-m]*
rm -f [n-z]*
rm -f [A-M]*
rm -f [N-Z]*
rm -f [0-9]*
rm -f *


-Andrew




On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:

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> rm *.in fails with the error "too many arguments" (there is 15000 files).
> How do I use it with more arguments? (xargs man page makes no sense at all)
> TIA
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